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Clinton says NKorea-US talks are 'positive'
Washington (AFP) Dec 10, 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that a top US-North Korean meeting in Pyongyang was "quite positive" even though it produced no date for resuming nuclear disarmament talks. "For a preliminary meeting, it was quite positive," Clinton told reporters after US envoy Stephen Bosworth left Pyongyang saying both sides agreed on the need to resume the negotiations but without setting a date for them. "The approach that our administration is taking is of strategic patience in close coordination with our six-party allies," the chief US diplomat said. "And I think that making it clear to the North Koreans what we had expected and how we were moving forward is exactly what was called for," Clinton added. She said the meeting amounted to "exploratory" talks rather than negotiations. Bosworth's three-day visit was the first official contact between Washington and Pyongyang since President Barack Obama took office in January, pledging direct diplomacy with America's adversaries. The United States and partners China, South Korea, Japan and Russia are urging North Korea to resume the nuclear disarmament talks Pyongyang bolted from in April following international censure over a long-range rocket launch. Philip Crowley, the US assistant secretary for public affairs, said Bosworth's team left Pyongyang without the impression that North Korea had "crossed the threshold" of seeking to return to the disarmament talks. "We await, you know, more information from North Korea as to whether and how they will proceed to come back to the six-party process," Crowley told reporters later. "Whether that means, you know, a phone call or another meeting, we'll wait and see," he added. He added that the North Koreans did not request a second bilateral meeting with the US side. A senior State Department official told reporters that "the North Koreans brought up the issue of the peace treaty," but that Bosworth's team replied that the issue can only be addressed in the context of the six-party talks. North Korea never signed a peace treaty with the United States, which stations 28,500 troops in democratic South Korea. The 1950-53 Korean War ended only in an armistice, although Pyongyang said in May that it had disavowed it. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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US, N.Korea agree on need to resume nuke talks: BosworthSeoul (AFP) Dec 11, 2009 The United States and North Korea agree on the need to resume stalled six-party nuclear disarmament negotiations but have not set a date, a senior US envoy said Thursday after visiting Pyongyang. Stephen Bosworth said it was unclear when the North would return to the six-party forum which it quit in April, a month before its second nuclear test. His visit was nonetheless described as "qu ... read more |
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