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South Korea Urges U.S. to Talk With North Korea
The United States and North Korea should conduct bilateral talks in order to revive the stalled six-nation negotiations on Pyongyang’s nuclear program, South Korean Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok said today (see GSN, April 5). Lee said top North Korean and U.S. officials were likely to meet directly next week on the sidelines of a security conference in Japan. “Dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea is necessary regardless of format,” he said. Lee also said a summit meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao set for this month in Washington was unlikely to revive the nuclear talks (Associated Press I/China Daily, April 6). North Korea’s top nuclear negotiator and four other North Korean officials today received a Japanese entry permit for next week’s conference, AP reported. China’s chief nuclear negotiator, Wu Dawei, is also expected to meet with his counterparts from the six-nation talks but will not attend the conference, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced today. Japan plans to urge the top U.S. and North Korean negotiators to hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the conference, Kyodo News reported (Associated Press II, April 6).
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