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Rice to Visit Asia for Nuclear Proliferation Talks
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to travel to Asia Monday for a one-week visit to discuss nuclear proliferation, in the midst of a multilateral diplomatic push to resume six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program, the Financial Times reported (see GSN, March 9). Meanwhile, Ning Fukui, China’s special envoy to the negotiations, is scheduled to meet with U.S. top negotiator Christopher Hill and other officials in Washington today (Guy Dinmore, Financial Times, March 9). The six-party talks should serve as a framework for forming a new multilateral relationship in Northeast Asia, Hill said yesterday. “I think we should use this process to our advantage to solve the nuclear issue and move on to form the multilateral relationship (among the member countries),” he said, adding that Washington carried a “sense of optimism” toward the six-party talks (Lee Joo-hee, Korea Herald, March 10). Elsewhere, the deputy head of Russia’s atomic energy agency said today that North Korea has no nuclear weapons, Itar-Tass reported. While Pyongyang may have processed plutonium from some 8,000 nuclear fuel rods, this does not mean North Korea has the requisite technology to produce nuclear weapons, said Sergei Antipov (Andrei Antonov, Itar-Tass, March 10).
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