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North Korea May Deliver Its Nuclear List in Two Days
(Bloomberg) -- North Korea may deliver its list of nuclear plants and materials to China on June 26, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, a move that will allow the six- nation disarmament forum to resume. ``There is word that they would try to do that by Thursday,'' Perino said at a briefing in Washington yesterday. ``This is a deadline that the North Koreans themselves have put out there. We'll see if they decide to do that.'' While the declaration is a step toward achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, it will have to be ``reviewed and considered verifiable'' before the process moves on, she said. The six-nation talks have stalled since Kim Jong Il's regime missed a Dec. 31, 2007, deadline to declare its nuclear plants and programs under an agreement with the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia. China may be able to announce news about the declaration ``very soon,'' the U.S. chief nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said in Beijing yesterday without elaborating. ``We're getting very soon to the North Korean submission of their declaration,'' Hill said. ``These six-party talks are coming up soon and let's hope that they can move the process along and get us to the end goal here, which is denuclearization.'' Nobutaka Machimura, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, said in Tokyo today that he's aware of reports that North Korea may make the disclosure on June 26. Posted by: Fred 2008-06-25 |
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