• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

'NK Willing to Attend Nuke Talks'

2003-11-15

MOSCOW - North Korea affirmed again its intention to participate in a new round of six-way talks on resolving concerns over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons plan, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

"North Korean Ambassador to Russia Pak Ui-chun and Vice Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said in Moscow that their countries are ready for a new round of six-way talks to seek a fair and reciprocal resolution to the nuclear issue," a spokesman for the ministry said.

In a significant turnaround from its earlier position, North Korea agreed in principle to a second round of six-way talks during a meeting with a delegation from China in late October.

South Korea, the United States, Japan, China and Russia met with North Korea in the six-party format in Beijing in August, but the meeting ended with no progress made, and the North has since rejected all calls for further discussion.

Losyukov was quoted as saying that the North Korean side specified topics that should be discussed during the new multilateral talks, but has not yet officially agreed to the talks.

Source :www.korea.net