A group of U.S. experts on Korean affairs has urged the Obama administration to seek bilateral talks with North Korea under the six-way nuclear framework.

The New Beginnings Policy Research Study Group made the call in Washington Tuesday in a report titled “New Beginnings in the U.S.-South Korea Alliance: Recommendations to the Obama Administration.”

The report said the United States should continue to use the six-way nuclear talks and, within that framework, seek bilateral talks with North Korea to explore whether a new mix of inducements and pressures might achieve U.S. and South Korean goals.

It was emphasized that the Obama administration should stress that it would never accept the possession of nuclear weapons by North Korea.

The researchers believe that having tested a nuclear device in 2006, North Korea appears less and less likely to give up its nuclear capabilities.

The report added that North Korean officials have recently told Americans that the United States should get used to the idea of Pyongyang possessing nuclear weapons.

Some of the contributors to the report were former Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost, former U.S. ambassadors to Seoul Thomas Hubbard and Stephen Bosworth, Korea Society President Evans Revere and Korea Economic Institute President Jack Pritchard.