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North Korea open to disarmament progress: U.S. expert
Sat Feb 7, 2009 12:36am EST
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BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea wants to advance nuclear disarmament steps if its aid demands are met and it played down concerns over possible missile launches, a former senior U.S. diplomat just back from Pyongyang said on Saturday.
Tensions have risen in recent weeks after reports North Korea may seek to win leverage by firing short-range missiles into a disputed sea border with South Korea or firing long-range ones.
Stephen Bosworth, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and now dean at the Fletcher School of diplomacy at Tufts University, said senior North Korean officials he met in his five-day visit to Pyongyang would not confirm or deny any missile launch plans.
"They said we should all wait and see," he said of the possibility of launches. "There was no threat, no indication that they were concerned. They treated the missile issue as just another run-of-the-mill issue."
The North Korean officials told Bosworth's group of seven U.S. academics and former officials that their country wants progress in the six-party nuclear disarmament talks, which have faltered in dispute over the North's obligations and its demands for more heavy fuel oil shipments.
"We concluded that the outlook is that we can continue to work toward eventual denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," Bosworth told reporters at Beijing airport.
"They understand that the Obama administration will need some time to sort itself through the policy review and they expressed patience. There's no sense of alarm or urgency."
PRIVATE VISIT
Bosworth said the group was a private one, but he would discuss the trip with Obama administration officials.
North Korea held its first nuclear test explosion in October 2006, alarming regional powers and galvanizing six-party talks aimed at ending its atomic weapons ambitions.
Those talks sealed an initial agreement offering Pyongyang energy aid and an opening to better international ties in return for shutting and crippling its key Yongbyon nuclear facility in a "phase two" deal, prior to deeper disarmament steps.
The six-party talks, held in Beijing, bring together North and South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia.
But North Korea has stalled on the agreement, complaining that other countries have not kept their side of the bargain and given all the heavy fuel oil or equivalent aid promised.
"It's clear that they will require satisfaction of the commitment for heavy fuel oil," said Bosworth.
Under an agreement last year, North Korea was offered up to 1 million tonnes of heavy fuel or equivalent aid in return for progress on denuclearization, but by mid-November, the North had received about half of that amount. Continued...
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