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U.S. urges N.Korea to make next move
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 06 - 09 - 2008

The United States remains
willing to remove North Korea from a list of terror-sponsoring
states as soon as the North agrees rules to check its nuclear
disclosures, reuters quoted Washington's envoy in disarmament talks as saying on
Saturday.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill made the
comments ahead of talks in Beijing aimed at shoring up steps to
dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons programme in return for
aid and diplomatic concessions.
Envoys from Japan and South Korea have also gathered in
Beijing for the latest talks. But top North Korea envoy Kim
Kye-gwan did not appear at Beijing International Airport and
failed to show up for the talks in Beijing, Yonhap news
reported.
"It was already expected that Deputy Foreign Minister Kim
would not visit China," an unidentified South Korean diplomatic
source was quoted as saying.
"It appears that Kim has concluded that he would gain
little from the negotiations, with his country having turned
hard-line already."
North Korea started to disable its Yongbyon nuclear
facility in November, but halted that last month, angered that
Washington has yet to drop it from the U.S. list of state
sponsors of terrorism.
But Hill said Pyongyang had to agree first on rules
allowing inspectors to verify the declaration on its nuclear
inventory submitted in June.
"I think obviously we need to get from the North Koreans
the means by which we're going to verify the declaration," Hill
told reporters before heading for discussions with China's
envoy in the six-party nuclear talks, Wu Dawei.
"Then we'll be prepared immediately to delist them from the
terrorism list, which was our agreement."
The terror list is one of a series of sanctions isolating
Pyongyang economically and diplomatically. North Korea has
publicly exaggerated the intrusiveness of the verification
proposed by other countries in the talks, Hill said.
"I know that the North Koreans have expressed concerns that
we're looking at house-to-house searches. No one is talking
about house-to-house searches," he said.
Since 2003, China has sponsored the stop-start disarmament
negotiations with North Korea, which also include the United
States, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
Seoul's representative in the talks, Kim Sook, said on
Friday that efforts to defang North Korea's nuclear weapons
ambitions had reached a "critical moment". But without
Pyongyang at the latest talks, a breakthrough over the weekend
appears unlikely.
Hill said on Friday he would be willing to meet North
Korean officials while in Beijing, but said no such meeting was
planned.


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