免费日韩片_欧美成人精品一区二区男人小说_国产乱码一区二区三区四区_国产精品国产三级国产aⅴ入口_成人看的污污超级黄网站免费_欧美一级在线免费观看_成人午夜免费无码福利片_国产乱人伦偷精品视频色欲_aaa少妇高潮大片免费看_国产精品1234_亚洲精品国产suv一区88_中文字字幕在线中文无码_精品亚洲区_午夜九九九_国产av国片精品jk制服丝袜_色综合亚洲_亚洲成av人片无码bt种子下载_欧美色就色_精品少妇的一区二区三区四区_男人用嘴添女人下身免费视频

Global General

Special

Newsmaker

Asia Pacific

America

Middle East

Europe

Africa

Report: DPRK willing to hold talks with US

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-07-25 13:40

SEOUL, South Korea: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has indicated its interest in holding direct talks with the United States, a news report said, after the two sides traded barbs over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs at a security forum.

"We are not against a dialogue. We are not against any negotiation for the issues of common concern," Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted the DPRK's ambassador to the United Nations Sin Son Ho as saying Friday.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers a question at the State Department in Washington July 24, 2009. Washington and Pyongyang engaged in a sharp war of words earlier this week with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton likening the leaders in Pyongyang to "small children" demanding attention and the DPRK's Foreign Ministry described her as "a funny lady".[Agencies]

But the ambassador, speaking in New York, dismissed the possibility of a return to stalled nuclear negotiations involving the two Koreas, the US, Japan, China and Russia, saying "the six-party talks are gone forever."

The US has offered to hold talks with the DPRK within the six-nation process if it returns to the negotiating table and takes irreversible steps for denuclearization.

Last weekend, Assistant US Secretary of State Kurt Campbell indicated that the chances for direct talks between Pyongyang and Washington were slim. "Our bilateral negotiations are between the US and South Korea (the Republic of Korea) about our collective approach" to the DPRK, Campbell told reporters in Seoul.

Related readings:  Clinton pushes DPRK on nukes  US and DPRK compete for same stage  DPRK officially confirms missile launches  US calls on DPRK to return to denuclearization process  Clinton: DPRK doesn't deserve attention

Sin said the five other parties to the nuclear talks "cheated" the DPRK, accusing them of not implementing what they had agreed under a disarmament-for-aid deal. No more details were given in the Kyodo report.

Sin was not available for comment Saturday. The DPRK's mission to the UN declined to comment.

Pyongyang quit the nuclear talks in April to protest a UN statement condemning a rocket launch. The DPRK insisted it sent a satellite into orbit, while the US and its allies said it was actually a long-range missile test.

The DPRK conducted its second nuclear test in May and a barrage of missile tests in July, drawing international condemnation and new UN sanctions.

US and Chinese officials are expected to discuss the DPRK's nuclear programs and other regional security issues at a strategic dialogue next week in Washington.

"North Korea (the DPRK) will be a significant topic, but obviously one among many," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Friday in Washington.

Washington and Pyongyang engaged in a sharp war of words earlier this week over US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent comment likening the leaders in Pyongyang to "small children" demanding attention.

At a regional security conference in Thailand, Clinton also said Pyongyang "has no friends left."

The DPRK's Foreign Ministry described her Thursday as "a funny lady" who sometimes "looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping."