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US nuclear envoy stresses unity with S.Korea

US envoys are bringing no inducements for NKorea: US
Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Top US delegates are visting North Korea to test simply whether it wants to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks, without offering any incentives, a senior US official said Monday. Delegates led by special envoy Stephen Bosworth are due to visit Pyongyang on Tuesday in a bid to bring North Korea back to the negotiations it bolted from in April after a UN censure over a long-range rocket launch. "The purpose of their mission is to determine whether the North Koreans are ready and willing to return to the six-party talks and return to a serious discussion of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," the official said. The visit is not intended to be a "lengthy bilateral engagement," but rather one to determine the intentions of North Korea, the senior administration official told reporters.

"He is definitely not carrying additional inducements," the official said when asked if Bosworth was bringing something to induce the North Koreans back to the talks. "We've said from the beginning ....that we don't intend to reward North Korea simply for going back to doing something it had previously committed to do," he said. The other partners in the talks with North Korea -- Russia, China, South Korea and Japan -- agreed to this approach, he added. China chairs the negotiations. "The easiest answer is for the North to simply to make clear that it is ready to resume those talks, and then we would expect the chair would reconvene the talks," he said when asked if there is a US proposal to restart the talks. "If they have other specific ideas or modalities about restarting the talks, we would obviously listen to them as long as it's clear that the intention was to rejoin the talks and reaffirm the basic principles under which the talks have taken place," he said.
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 Seoul (AFP) Dec 7, 2009
 A US envoy Monday stressed unity with South Korea, on the eve of talks in Pyongyang aimed at bringing North Korea back to nuclear disarmament negotiations.

Stephen Bosworth, who will be the first official from President Barack Obama's administration to hold direct talks with the communist state, said the decision to start his mission in Seoul was "not an accident".

He was speaking before talks with South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Wi Sung-Lac, a day before he flies to the North's capital for a three-day visit.

Wi welcomed the US envoy's decision to start his trip in Seoul, saying it sent a clear signal that the two countries were consulting closely on strategy.

Bosworth also met Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan and was later to hold talks with Kim Sung-Hwan, senior presidential secretary for security and foreign affairs.

The North quit six-nation disarmament talks in April. It staged its second nuclear test the following month and followed up with a volley of missile launches.

After months of sabre-rattling, the North told visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in October it was ready to return to the six-party talks -- if the two-way discussions with the United States prove satisfactory.

The two sides, however, appear to have different agendas.

Japan-based Choson Sinbo newspaper, Pyongyang's unofficial mouthpiece, has said Bosworth's trip should focus on "establishing a peace regime" on the Korean peninsula.

North Korea maintains that a peace deal with Washington formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War is key to resolving the nuclear impasse.

But the United States says this week's visit will focus only on reviving the six-party process, and is wary of efforts to split its negotiating partners with the North -- South Korea, China, Japan and Russia.

Hopes of major progress this week are low.

"I don't expect much from the first visit to the North," Bosworth was quoted as telling Yonhap news agency last week. He has avoided reporters since arriving in Seoul.

Bosworth, the US special envoy on North Korea, is expected to meet Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok-Ju in Pyongyang.

On his return Thursday he will brief officials in Seoul, going on to Beijing on Friday, to Tokyo on Saturday and to Moscow on Sunday.

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 The US special envoy on North Korea arrived in Seoul on Sunday before heading to Pyongyang on a mission to try to persuade the communist regime to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks. Stephen Bosworth will be holding the first direct talks with the North under the administration of US President Barack Obama, but analysts and the envoy himself have played down hopes of a breakthrough ... read more






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