N Korea urges US to stick to nuclear deal
The success or failure of six-party disarmament talks depends on whether the US has concrete plans for abandoning its hostile policy toward North Korea, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper said on Saturday.
By Agencies |
SEOUL: The success or failure of six-party disarmament talks depends on whether the US has concrete plans for abandoning its hostile policy toward North Korea, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper said Saturday.
Chosun Sinbo, published in Tokyo, said in its Internet edition that Washington must stick to its side of a February deal by removing the designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism and cancelling sanctions applied under the US Trading with the Enemy Act.
The talks entered a third day Saturday in Beijing after US chief delegate Christopher Hill on Friday emphasised the complexity of ironing out a timetable for the secretive communist regime to declare and disable all its nuclear programmes this year.
"The success or failure of the six-party talks depends on whether the US side gives the DPRK (North Korea) a trustworthy and firm guarantee concerning action plans for ending its hostile policy," the newspaper said.
"If the US is genuinely intent on changing over its hostile policy toward the DPRK, it must take action including institutional and legal changes."
The paper said the US should "immediately" remove North Korea from the list of terror-sponsoring states and lift trade sanctions imposed under the Trading with the Enemy Act, adding that these had been agreed in bilateral talks.
"A DPRK delegate taking part in the six-party talks declared: 'The US hostile policy toward the DPRK has not changed'," the paper said.
The landmark deal brokered in February saw North Korea agree to abandon its nuclear weapons programmes in return for one million tonnes of fuel oil or equivalent aid, as well as diplomatic and security concessions.
In July, North Korea shut down its main nuclear reactor at Yongbyon and four other related facilities. In return it received the first deliveries of fuel oil and began diplomatic fence-building talks with rivals the US and Japan.
The February deal also calls for North Korea to discuss with other parties a list of all its nuclear programmes including weapons-making material.
It also says the US will begin the process of removing the designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism and advance the process of terminating the application of the Trading with the Enemy Act with respect to the communist state.
Chosun Sinbo, published in Tokyo, said in its Internet edition that Washington must stick to its side of a February deal by removing the designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism and cancelling sanctions applied under the US Trading with the Enemy Act.
The talks entered a third day Saturday in Beijing after US chief delegate Christopher Hill on Friday emphasised the complexity of ironing out a timetable for the secretive communist regime to declare and disable all its nuclear programmes this year.
"The success or failure of the six-party talks depends on whether the US side gives the DPRK (North Korea) a trustworthy and firm guarantee concerning action plans for ending its hostile policy," the newspaper said.
"If the US is genuinely intent on changing over its hostile policy toward the DPRK, it must take action including institutional and legal changes."
The paper said the US should "immediately" remove North Korea from the list of terror-sponsoring states and lift trade sanctions imposed under the Trading with the Enemy Act, adding that these had been agreed in bilateral talks.
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"A DPRK delegate taking part in the six-party talks declared: 'The US hostile policy toward the DPRK has not changed'," the paper said.
The landmark deal brokered in February saw North Korea agree to abandon its nuclear weapons programmes in return for one million tonnes of fuel oil or equivalent aid, as well as diplomatic and security concessions.
In July, North Korea shut down its main nuclear reactor at Yongbyon and four other related facilities. In return it received the first deliveries of fuel oil and began diplomatic fence-building talks with rivals the US and Japan.
The February deal also calls for North Korea to discuss with other parties a list of all its nuclear programmes including weapons-making material.
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It also says the US will begin the process of removing the designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism and advance the process of terminating the application of the Trading with the Enemy Act with respect to the communist state.
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