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DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Six-way Talks

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Arrangements for the next round of the six-way talks should be oriented towards making "words-for-words" commitments and reaching an agreement on actions to be taken at the first phase, said a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in an answer given to a question put by KCNA Saturday as regards the recent DPRK visit of the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of China. It said:
    The delegation of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by its Vice-Minister Wang Yi visited the DPRK from December 25 to 27.
    During its sojourn the delegation paid a courtesy call on Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, had an exhaustive exchange of views on the six-way talks with the vice-minister for U.S. affairs and discussed bilateral issues with the vice-minister for Chinese affairs.
    Both sides unanimously admitted that the second round of the six-way talks can play an important role in furthering and advancing the process of dialogue and expressed their willingness to make necessary arrangements and exert efforts to ensure that talks are held early next year and thus promote the process of seeking a negotiated peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue.
    It is a stumbling block lying in the way of making arrangements for the talks that the Bush administration is keen to force the DPRK to disarm itself, asserting that it must scrap its nuclear weapons program first without showing any will to make a switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    This is a main hurdle in realizing the proposal for a package solution on the principle of simultaneous actions, a proposal commanding the support and understanding of all the participating countries.
    The U.S. persistent insistence on such stand would only break the foundation of dialogue.
    As the DPRK has already clarified, the actions at the first phase are for the U.S. and neighbors to take measures in return for the DPRK's complete freeze of its nuclear activities.
    This is a starting point and a core issue in furthering the six-way talks.