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S.Korea urges to discuss N.Korea nuclear program BEIJING, Aug 13 (AFP) - South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said during a trip to China the issue of a peaceful North Korean nuclear program needed to be discussed, Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency said Saturday. "All concerned sides still need to discuss about the DPRK's right of peaceful use of nuclear energy," said Ban, referring to North Korea by the abbreviation of its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Ban made the remark Friday after talks in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing and State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, a former foreign minister. Six-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions broke off last Sunday for three weeks without any sign of agreement on how to get the Stalinst state to abandon atomic weapons. The talks, which involve the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan, are scheduled to resume in the final week of August. A key sticking point was Pyongyang's insistence on the right to retain peaceful atomic reactors to produce energy, a demand flatly rejected by the US. During Friday's talks, State Councilor Tang told Ban the most recent round of six-party talks had "entered a new stage of substantial negotiation" and made "positive progress," according to the Xinhua report. Tang said he hoped all sides would maintain contact and coordination, study hard on how to narrow their differences and facilitate the talks in order to bring about more progress, the agency said. |
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