producing light water reactor. The next round of six-party negotiations involving North Korea and the United States, Japan, South Korea, China and Russia is to resume in December. "We want to see tangible results in the dismantling of a programme, and at the appropriate time we'll discuss the light water reactor," Bush told reporters last week, adding that he would remind the allies "that we will stick together and hopefully achieve this noble goal". Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, speaking in Pusan, said: "All sides need to cooperate flexibly in order to achieve the shared goal of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula." The United States wants Japan to lift a ban on U.S. beef imposed over mad cow fears and, faced with a trade deficit with China projected to hit $200 billion this year, wants China to liberalize its Yuan currency and crack down on counterfeiting of American movies and computer programs.
