North Korea Announces Return to Six-Party Talks in Late July
After weeks of negotiations in New York and China, North Korea has agreed to return to six-party talks on its nuclear program, This recent round of diplomacy ends 13 months of intense international efforts to bring the reclusive country back to the negotiating table. The six way talks will likely resume in Beijing on July 27. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan met in Beijing on Saturday and agreed to reconvene the talks in the week of July 25. The two countries formally announced the agreement on Sunday.
In contrast to what I see as an upbeat prospect of progress by the North Koreans and South Korean press, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cautioned Sunday that North Korea's decision to resume nuclear disarmament talks does not mean the United States is any closer to its long-standing goal of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.
"It's only a start," Rice said at a news conference. "It is the goal of the talks to have progress."
In contrast to what I see as an upbeat prospect of progress by the North Koreans and South Korean press, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cautioned Sunday that North Korea's decision to resume nuclear disarmament talks does not mean the United States is any closer to its long-standing goal of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.
"It's only a start," Rice said at a news conference. "It is the goal of the talks to have progress."
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