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Sat, 09/17/2011 - 06:42
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U.S. hails Koreas' nuclear talks in China
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) - The United States on Friday welcomed a second round of inter-Korean nuclear talks in Beijing next week, a development that may help resume long-stalled broader talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear programs.
South Korean chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac will meet with his North Korean counterpart in the Chinese capital in the middle of next week, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Friday.
The two nuclear envoys met on the sidelines of a regional security conference in Indonesia in July for the first time in more than two years.
The meeting paved the way for rare high-level talks between North Korea and the U.S. in New York later that month on nuclear and other issues pending between the two countries.
"We would welcome a dialogue -- further dialogue, rather, between North Korea and South Korea," State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said at a press briefing.
North Korea quit the disarmament-for-aid talks in 2009, but it has since repeatedly expressed its desire to return to the talks that involve South Korea, the United States, China, Russia and Japan.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, during a rare summit last month with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, also called for a quick resumption of the nuclear talks without any preconditions.
South Korean chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac will meet with his North Korean counterpart in the Chinese capital in the middle of next week, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Friday.
The two nuclear envoys met on the sidelines of a regional security conference in Indonesia in July for the first time in more than two years.
The meeting paved the way for rare high-level talks between North Korea and the U.S. in New York later that month on nuclear and other issues pending between the two countries.
"We would welcome a dialogue -- further dialogue, rather, between North Korea and South Korea," State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said at a press briefing.
North Korea quit the disarmament-for-aid talks in 2009, but it has since repeatedly expressed its desire to return to the talks that involve South Korea, the United States, China, Russia and Japan.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, during a rare summit last month with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, also called for a quick resumption of the nuclear talks without any preconditions.
