Tracking Number: 337139
Title: "Resumption of US-North Korea Negotiations on Nuclear and Other Issues." The US has agreed to resume negotiations with North Korea as a result of North Korea's current
cooperation with IAEA nuclear inspectors and its renewal of talks with South Korea. (940314)
Date: 19940314
Text:
US DEPARTMENT OF STATE DISPATCH
PUBLISHED BY THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 11, AMRCH 14, 1994
Resumption of U.S.-North Korea Negotiations on Nuclear and Other Issues
Statement by Department Spokesman Michael McCurry, released by the Office of the Spokesman, Washington, DC, March 3, 1994, including the text of the U.S.-North Korea agreed conclusions.
The United States Government has been informed that a team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived in Pyongyang to begin work at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear research facility. The IAEA team will carry out activities aimed at verifying that nuclear material at these facilities has not been diverted since earlier IAEA inspections and facilitating future verification. The team expects to complete these inspections, necessary to ensure continuity of safeguards in North Korea, in about two weeks.
We have also been informed that representatives of the Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) resumed discussions earlier today, in the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom, on the exchange of special envoys who will address intra-Korean issues, including the nuclear issue.
In light of these steps, the United States has agreed with the D.P.R.K. to meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 21 to begin a third round of negotiations. The talks will aim at a thorough and broad resolution of the nuclear and other issues that separate the D.P.R.K. from the U.S. and the rest of the international community.
Assistant Secretary of State Robert L. Gallucci will head the U.S. delegation to the third round of talks.
Also, the Government of the Republic of Korea has announced that it and the U.S. Government have decided to suspend the combined military exercise, Team Spirit, in 1994. The U.S. agrees with that decision. The long-standing security relationship between the R.O.K. and the U.S. remains strong, and the suspension of Team Spirit '94 will not weaken our joint defensive capabilities.
The undertakings of the U.S. regarding Team Spirit '94 and a third round of U.S.-D.P.R.K. talks are based on the premise that the IAEA inspections will be fully implemented and the South-North nuclear dialogue will continue through the exchange of special envoys.
Agreed Conclusions
The United States of America (USA) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have held a series of talks in New York, with the purpose of making continued joint efforts to resolve the nuclear issue through dialogue according to the principles of the U.S./DPRK Joint Statement of June 11, 1993.
Pursuant to the consultations, both sides have agreed to take four simultaneous steps on March 1, 1994 as follows:
1. The USA announces its decision to agree with the Republic of Korea's suspension of the Team Spirit '94 joint military exercise.
2. The inspections necessary for the continuity of safeguards as agreed between the IAEA and the DPRK on February 15, 1994 begin and will be completed within the period agreed by the IAEA and the DPRK.
3. The working level contacts resume in Panmunjom for the exchange of North-South Special Envoys.
4. The USA and DPRK announce that the third round of U.S./DPRK talks will begin on March 21, 1994 in Geneva.
Each of these simultaneous steps is required for the implementation of these agreed conclusions. (###)
Product Name: Dispatch, Vol 5 No 11 Mar 14 1994
Product Code: DP
Keywords: KOREA (NORTH)-US RELATIONS; INSPECTIONS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; KOREA (NORTH)-KOREA (SOUTH) RELATIONS; NEGOTIATIONS;
GALLUCCI, ROBERT; MILITARY EXERCISES; TREATIES & AGREEMENTS
Document Type: TXT
Thematic Codes: 1EA
PDQ Text Link: 337139
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