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Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Recent DPRK-U.S. Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Monday as regards the recent DPRK-U.S. talks held in Geneva:
    A meeting of the DPRK-U.S. working group for the six-party talks was held in Geneva from Sept. 1 to 2.
    The meeting discussed the goals at the next phase for the implementation of the September 19 joint statement and reached a series of agreements.
    Both sides discussed the issue of taking practical measures to neutralize the existing nuclear facilities in the DPRK within this year and agreed on them.
    In return for this the U.S. decided to take such political and economic measures for compensation as delisting the DPRK as a terrorism sponsor and lifting all sanctions that have been applied according to the Trading with the Enemy Act.
    This has laid a groundwork for making progress at the plenary session of the six-party talks to be held in the future.