Saturday, June 26, 2004
North Korea willing to give up all N-programmes: China
Agence France-Presse Beijing, June 26
North Korea has expressed willingness to give up all its nuclear weapons programmes, China's chief delegate said on Saturday without specifying if this included uranium-enrichment.
"The DPRK is willing to give up all nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons-related programmes in a transparent way," Wang Yi said at a press conference.
He said the key points that needed to be hammered out revolve around the scope and way of nuclearisation, including the scope of a freeze and corresponding measures.
"Parties, in particular the DPRK and the United States, still have serious differences on the above but their differences are narrowing," he said. The US side wants North Korea to dismantle all its nuclear weapons programmes, including uranium, but the Stalinist regime has persistently denied it has uranium-based programmes.
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