Seoul - North Korea on Thursday said there had been
'progress' in its latest talks with the United States in the dispute
concerning the North Koreans' nuclear activities, according to
reports in the South Korean capital Seoul.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Pyongyang was quoted by the
official KCNA news agency as commenting that 'the negotiations
proceeded in a sincere and constructive manner, and progress was
made' in the talks.
The US delegation, led by Sung Kim, director of the US State
Department's Office of Korea Affairs, in the meantime has returned to
Seoul after crossing the heavily-fortified inter-Korean border
Tuesday to travel to Pyongyang.
The spokesman said the talks concerned the issues pertaining to
the agreement on North Korea declaring its nuclear activities. But he
gave no further details.
The US delegation had also included officials from the National
Security Council and Defence and Energy departments, the embassy
said.
The visit to Pyongyang came after North Korea's and the United
States' top nuclear negotiators met two weeks ago in Singapore. They
both spoke of making progress although a breakthrough wasn't achieved
on the declaration, the current sticking point of six-nation talks
aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear programmes.
The United States insists North Korea has failed to fulfil its
promise to submit a complete declaration. However, US newspaper
reports last week indicated that the United States was prepared to
relax demands that North Korea admit to a uranium-enrichment
programme and to offering nuclear assistance to Syria.
The issue has stalled the six-nation talks involving North and
South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia since the end
of last year. As part of those talks, Pyongyang agreed to declare its
nuclear programme and dismantle its nuclear facilities in return for
energy and economic aid.
SP4:Bullsh-tApr 24th, 2008 - 15:40:20
Today, Israel is supposed to tell that they bombed a Syrian nuclear enrichment facility, supposedly with tech supplied by N. Korea. This being the case, how can we trust anything that comes from Kim????
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