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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States and North Korea on Thursday began exploratory talks in which Washington is looking for concrete signs that Pyongyang is ready to discuss its nuclear program after a more than two-year hiatus.
The U.S. special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, sat down with veteran North Korean nuclear negotiator Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in New York for discussions that were expected to continue into Friday.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner underscored that the talks were exploratory and Washington aimed to gauge Pyongyang's willingness to take real steps to ease tensions and re-engage in aid-for-disarmament negotiations.
"We're quite clear, broadly, on what we're looking for, which is for North Korea to live up to its commitments ... it needs to take concrete steps toward denuclearization," Toner told a news briefing in Washington.
U.S. officials have stressed they will not rush back into talks that were last held under the Bush administration in late 2008.
Crowds of journalists jostled outside the U.S. mission to the United Nations as the U.S. and North Korean teams arrived, but neither side commented publicly on talks which carry diplomatic risks for each.
North Korea quit the six-party process -- which also includes China, Japan, Russia and South Korea -- after the isolated state's 2009 nuclear test was met with U.N. Security Council sanctions. It also tested an atomic device in 2006.
A 2005 document signed by the six countries spelled out a process in which North Korea would scrap its nuclear programs in exchange for economic and energy aid and diplomatic relations with the United States and Japan.
North Korea has set out some terms of its own, repeating its calls for a peace treaty to replace the truce that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War.
The current talks follow signs that tensions between North Korea and South Korea are easing since two attacks last year blamed on the North killed 50 South Koreans.
South Korea has softened its demand for an apology from North Korea over the 2010 attacks as the precondition for resuming dialogue.
Foreign ministers from the two sides met on the sidelines of an Asian security conference in Indonesia on Saturday for the first time since 2008.
The United States and China, North Korea's sole ally and main aid donor, have agreed on a three-stage process to resume the six-party talks. The first stage is the two Koreas engaging bilaterally, the second involves talks between the North and the United States, and the third stage is the six-party talks.
Toner said North Korea's human rights record could also be discussed at the talks, and that Washington had yet to decide on resuming food aid to North Korea which says more than 6 million people are in urgent need of assistance.
"We've made no decisions on food aid," Toner said. Washington continues to study the findings of a U.S. team which visited North Korea in May to assess its possible food needs, he added.
(Writing by Andrew Quinn; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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Gregory1 wrote:
Any agreement with North Korea must cotain a no exclusion clause for nuclear weapons proliferation(Syria) and their platforms/delivery systems ie. Ballistic missile’s(numerous countries) and nuclear artillery (Myammar). The use of disabled children as biological weapons testing subjects should be at the forfront of any type of negoiations, with no concessions. The listing of North Korea on the terror list can again be made manifest if there is any bad faith shown by the north. The Austrailian government also deserves a like clarification on the catagory 5 typhoon that attempted to destroy the listening post in the northern territories before the nuclear test. The warning of the pre-emptive strike was printed in the Kyoto(Japan) news. Also the use of chinese organized crime, IRA splinter groups and former KGB agents to infiltrate organized crime in the United States the FBI uncovered during operation “Smoking Dragon/Royal Charm” in 2005. Does North Korea still use diplomatic immunity to hide international narcotics trafficking?
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JamVee wrote:
I will be shocked if this is anything other than just one more “delaying tactic” on the part of NK.
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