 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Seoul (AFP) April 22, 2011 China's chief envoy to six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament will visit South Korea next week for talks, the foreign ministry said Friday. Wu Dawei will meet his counterpart Wi Sung-Lac on Tuesday and Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan on Wednesday, the ministry said in a statement. "The two sides will review recent inter-Korean ties and the North Korean nuclear issue and exchange views on ways to deal with them," it said. Diplomatic efforts are resuming after a year of high cross-border military tensions. Wi visited Washington last week and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to Seoul last weekend to coordinate the next move on the communist North. Former US president Jimmy Carter, an advocate of reaching out to Pyongyang, is expected to visit the North next week with fellow elder statesmen. A US-North Korean agreement on dismantling the North's nuclear programme broke down in 2002 and a subsequent six-nation deal reached in 2005 has also collapsed. In November the North disclosed an apparently functional uranium enrichment plant, giving it a potential second way to make atomic bombs -- in addition to its plutonium programme -- although it says the programme is peaceful. Efforts by Washington and Seoul in February to address the uranium programme at the UN Security Council failed amid opposition from Beijing, Pyongyang's strong ally. Tensions have been high on the peninsula since the North's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship in March 2010. Last November it shelled a South Korean island, killing four people.
Share This Article With Planet Earth
Related Links Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com Learn about missile defense at SpaceWar.com All about missiles at SpaceWar.com Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
N. Korea ready for atomic test any time: S. KoreaSeoul (AFP) April 19, 2011 North Korea is ready to conduct another nuclear test if its current approaches for dialogue fail although there are no current signs of preparations, South Korea's spy chief said Tuesday. "Another atomic test is always possible as (North Korea) has various nuclear test sites and construction of (new) sites is under way," National Intelligence Service chief Won Sei-Hoon was quoted as telling ... read more |
|
|
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2010 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement |
del.icio.us
Digg
Reddit
YahooMyWeb
Google
Facebook
