China urges resumption of North Korea nuclear talks
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for the resumption of the stalled six-party talks aimed at allaying concerns over North Korea’s nuclear program.
In an interview published on Tuesday, Wang urged all parties involved in the stalled talks to “work hard together, meet each other half way and create conditions to resume the six-party talks, to strive to put the nuclear issue at the earliest date possible on a dialogue process that is sustainable, effective and cannot be gone back on.”
The six-party negotiations, which included Russia, China, the United States, Japan, South Korea and North Korea, stalled in April 2009 after the United Nations imposed tougher sanctions on Pyongyang for conducting nuclear and missile tests.
The Chinese minister added that all sides should try to revive the negotiations to help ensure regional peace and stability.
'Equal resolution'
Wang said, “Only if the symptoms and the causes are addressed... and there is a full and equal resolution of all sides’ concerns can we find a way out.”
“The nuclear issue has been around for a long time and is intricate and complicated,” he said.
Last month, Seoul said that the group has reached “a certain degree of consensus” on how to restart the talks.
The two Koreas remain technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
The North, however, accuses Washington of plotting with regional allies to topple the country’s government, claiming that its nuclear program is a deterrent against US forces in the region.
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