U.S. Urges North Korea to Resume Nuclear Talks

North Korea seems willing to resume multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said yesterday (see GSN, Jan. 25).

“I think there have been some indications about North Korea wanting to get back to the talks,” he said.

“We urge North Korea to come back to the talks as soon as possible without precondition so that we can move forward on the principles that we agreed to,” McClellan added.

Japanese, South Korean and U.S. diplomats have been consulting on resumption of the talks, the Yonhap News Agency reported today (Yonhap, Jan. 26).

Seoul has requested that Indonesia host three-nation talks with North Korea in order to pave the way for Pyongyang’s return to the nuclear negotiations, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday.

The meeting is hoped to occur “as soon as possible” in Jakarta or on the resort island of Bali, said Indonesian Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Jan. 25).

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