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US, SKorea demand NKorea submit full nuclear declaration
Washington (AFP) March 26, 2008 The United States and South Korea called on North Korea Wednesday to submit a full declaration of its nuclear arms program as soon as possible, saying time and patience were running out. After talks here, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pyongyang's reluctance to provide the declaration was holding up multilateral talks to end the Stalinist state's nuclear weapons drive while her South Korean counterpart Yu Myung-Hwan lamented that "time and patience is running out." "It is really time now for there to be movement on the declaration so that with that declaration we have, we can move forward on the next phase" of actual dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear weapons, Rice told reporters with Yu on her side. North Korea has refused to make a "complete and correct" declaration of its nuclear weapons program and its alleged proliferation activities as part of an aid-for-disarmament deal agreed to by six parties -- the United States, China, the two Koreas, Japan and Russia, officials said. The declaration was supposed to have been made by the end of 2007 under the deal, which would reward North Korea with energy aid as well as diplomatic and security guarantees by the United States and others. North Korea, which has already closed its main nuclear reactor complex and is in the process of disabling it, submitted a list last November but the United States says it has not accounted fully for a suspected uranium enrichment program and allegations of nuclear proliferation to Syria. Rice said Wednesday that if all parties followed "their obligations," the nuclear deal would "really be a landmark agreement" and bring stability to Northeast Asia. Yu said the six-party forum was a "useful venue" to pursue peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and "we are working in close coordination to persuade North Korea to submit a complete and correct declaration" so that talks among the six nations could resume soon. "Regarding the North Korean nuclear issue and declaration, I think time and patience is running out," he said. "I hope North Korea will submit the declaration as soon as possible so as not to lose good timing," Yu said. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com Learn about missile defense at SpaceWar.com All about missiles at SpaceWar.com Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
NKorea, US to hold more nuke talks
Seoul (AFP) March 18, 2008North Korea has agreed to hold further talks with the United States in a bid to end the deadlock over its nuclear disarmament, the communist state's official media said Tuesday. |
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