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North Korea: Washington-Pyongyang Talks Needed to Avoid Escalation, U.N. Envoy Says After a four-day visit to North Korea, a U.N. envoy said the United States and North Korea must begin speaking soon to prevent escalating the crisis over Pyongyang’s nuclear activities, the Financial Times reported today (see GSN, March 19). “There is no need for war, yet war could occur if the parties cannot find a way to resolve their differences across the table diplomatically,” said Maurice Strong, aide to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. “Until those discussions occur, the risks that the process will degenerate, without the intent of either party, into a conflict still remain,” Strong said. North Korea is currently watching the U.S-led war on Iraq “with deep concern,” worried that it could be a future U.S target, Strong said. North Korea said yesterday that a month-long joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise was escalating tensions. “This goes to prove that the U.S. scenario to provoke a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula has entered a reckless phase of implementation,” according to the North Korean state-owned news agency (Andrew Ward, Financial Times, March 24).
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