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U.S. tells North Korea to end insults, return to talks
Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:23am EST
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SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday told North Korea to stop being provocative and return to nuclear talks, warning that ties could not improve ties with Washington if it continued insulting South Korea.
Clinton, calling the isolated state a "tyranny," repeated the new U.S. administration's offer of diplomatic relations, massive aid and a peace treaty if Pyongyang gives up efforts to build an atomic arsenal, which poses one of the biggest risks to security in North Asia and its giant economies.
"The most immediate issue is to continue the disablement of their nuclear facilities and to get a complete and verifiable agreement as to the end of their nuclear program," she told a news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan.
Talks between the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States on the North's nuclear ambitions have all but ground to a halt, most recently stuck on Pyongyang's refusal to allow nuclear material to be taken abroad for tests.
Clinton made clear the North also needed to tone down its increasingly furious rhetoric which this week alone has included a threat of war with its wealthy neighbor South Korea and an accusation the United States plans a nuclear strike against it.
North Korea is also thought to be preparing the launch of a missile with the potential to reach U.S. territory.
"North Korea is not going to get a different relationship with the United States while insulting and refusing dialogue with (South Korea)," Clinton said in Seoul, the third stop of her Asia tour.
She called the saber-rattling "provocative" and "unhelpful," praising the South Korean government for its restraint.
North Korea, seen facing another serious food shortage, has turned on the conservative government in the South which has ended years of free-flowing aid over the nuclear impasse.
"(South) Korea's achievement of democracy and prosperity stands in stark contrast to the tyranny and poverty across the border to the North," Clinton said.
North Korea bristled at being described as "an outpost of tyranny" by the Bush administration, and one analyst said Clinton's comments could trigger further anger from Pyongyang's leadership which may have hoped for a softer line from the new U.S. government.
"(This) is likely to lead it to a new round of harsher rhetoric or to a possible military provocations against South Korea," said Moon Hong-sik, a research fellow at the South's Institute for National Security Strategy.
POSSIBLE POWER STRUGGLE
On Thursday, Clinton warned of a possible power struggle in the communist state, and the possibility of a crisis over who may succeed leader Kim Jong-il, 67, who is widely believed to have suffered a stroke last August.
While she was in Seoul, North Korea said a senior general and close Kim aide, O Kuk-ryol, had been promoted to a top post in the National Defence Commission, the main seat of power. Continued...
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