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Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan will today meet with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi to discuss international and regional issues, including their strategies and expectations for resuming the deadlocked six-nation talks for ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, officials here said. The Foreign Minister departed for China yesterday to first stop in Shanghai to review Seoul's preparations for operating a Korean booth at the upcoming World Expo 2010 slated for May. Yu also is expected to weigh  

Thai authorities on Saturday searched a Georgian cargo aircraft from Pyongyang during a refueling stop at Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport and found 35 tons of North Korean weapons aboard, including missiles and explosives, and arrested five crewmembers including the pilot. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Sunday the measure was based on Thai laws and the UN Resolution 1874. Some reports said the final destination of the plane was Pakistan, near whose border U.S. forces are engaged in a fierce ba  

Seoul—North Korea warned Tuesday that South Korean-US war games this month would torpedo efforts to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, and vowed to strengthen its atomic arsenal if necessary. The March 8-18 exercise comes "at a time when the international community is growing more vocal than ever before calling for a settlement of the nuclear issue", the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary. "Obviously this is a deliberate attempt to disturb peace on the peninsula and tor

We are very anxious to see the talks resume, and we have made that clear to North Korea   -Philip Crowley

 

A senior US diplomat was due in China Tuesday for talks aimed at putting Sino-US relations back on track, with tensions high over US arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama. US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg will also focus on efforts to bring North Korea back to stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations, and try to persuade Beijing to back new sanctions against Iran over its atomic drive. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Beijing and Washington needed to p  

North Korea warned Tuesday that South Korean-US war games this month would torpedo efforts to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, and vowed to strengthen its atomic arsenal if necessary. The March 8-18 exercise comes "at a time when the international community is growing more vocal than ever before calling for a settlement of the nuclear issue", the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary. "Obviously this is a deliberate attempt to disturb peace on the peninsula and torpedo t  

NORTH Korea warned on Tuesday that South Korean-US war games this month would torpedo efforts to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, and vowed to strengthen its atomic arsenal if necessary. Despite tensions over the exercise the two Koreas went ahead with talks on ways to ease business at their jointly-run Kaesong factory estate, a valuable revenue source for the sanctions-hit North. The March 8-18 exercise comes 'at a time when the international community is growing more vocal than ever before call

We are very anxious to see the talks resume, and we have made that clear to North Korea   -Philip Crowley

 

China is proposing a three-phase process for the resumption of stalled six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear proliferation. In the three-step framework, the resumption of multilateral talks would follow bilateral contact between the U.S. and North Korea and preliminary meetings between the six participating countries of the nuclear negotiations. According to diplomatic sources, China's top nuclear envoy Wu Dawei made the proposal in a meeting with U.S.  

SEOUL, March 1 (AP) - (Kyodo)—China is sounding out the United States, Japan and other members of the six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program on a three-step proposal to resume the stalled negotiations, sources close to the process said Monday. The formula would be spearheaded by a resumption of U.S.-North Korean talks on bilateral issues to be followed by a preparatory meeting of the countries involved in the six-nation talks that would lead up to a formal resumption of six-nation talk  

Special Representative for North Korea Policy Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth visited Japan Feb. 26-27 for a series of meetings with senior Japanese government officials, including Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada. During the visit, Ambassador Bosworth told reporters that five of the participants in the Six Party Talks are prepared to move very quickly to restart the dialogue. "There is a strong desire to get back to the table and to begin serious work on the very important issues that we face."

There is a strong desire to get back to the table and to begin serious work on the very important issues that we face.   -Ambassador Bosworth