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United States 1. DPRK Multilateral Talks Six-way talks on the DPRK nuclear crisis were bogged down by “differences, difficulties and contradictions,” but host PRC held out hopes on Friday for a joint statement to help end the 16-month-old stalemate. Late on a long third day of discussions in Beijing, senior negotiators struggled to hammer out […]

United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Program The US hopes the DPRK will promise to dismantle its nuclear weapons program later this month at critical six-nation talks aimed at easing tensions, a top US envoy said Friday. In a sign that the US and the ROK are coordinating an approach, the US Ambassador to […]

United States 1. US DPRK Policy Criticism A leading Senate Democrat on Wednesday accused the administration of President George W. Bush of delaying serious talks with the DPRK on its nuclear arms program. “The administration’s inattention and ideological rigidity has left America less secure today than we were three years ago,” Sen. Joseph Biden, the […]

United States 1. US Visit to Yongbyon Plant The DPRK plans to allow a US group to visit a nuclear complex to prove it is not bluffing about its progress toward making more atomic weapons, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper and source in Japan said Thursday. The January 6-10 visit by a group includes a nuclear scientist, […]

United States 1. US on Multilateral Talks Despite delays that have pushed any possibility of six-party talks with the DPRK to curtail its nuclear arms program into 2004, a senior US official said on Friday it was too early to say diplomatic efforts had failed. After months of intensive efforts, the US and its partners […]

United States 1. US Bolton on the DPRK US under secretary of state for arms control and international security al John Bolton once branded “human scum” and a “bloodsucker” by the DPRK, has vowed that the DPRK would win no reward for “blackmail and bad behavior” during a nuclear crisis. Bolton also warned that Kim […]

United States 1. US on New Korean Armistice The US has proposed creating a new multilateral peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula to replace the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, a newspaper said Wednesday. The US made the offer to the DPRK at the three-nation talks, which included the PRCin April, the Nihon […]

United States 1. DPRK on US Nuclear Proposal The DPRK said at the weekend that it would consider the US offer of a written security assurance in return for dismantling its nuclear program, raising hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough in the year-old stand-off. The statement was in response to President George W. Bush’s proposal last […]

United States 1. Rumsfeld on US-ROK Military Alliance and DPRK US plans to boost its military potential on the Korean Peninsula over the next four years — and make a concerted effort to strengthen its security alliance with the ROK, said US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He did not offer any specifics. But addressing the […]

United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Crisis US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said on Monday that the world should learn from the DPRK crisis and work hard to prevent other countries from secretly developing nuclear weapons. “We must deal immediately and effectively with any state seeking to exploit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to […]