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China-Japan-Koreas
China, U.S., N. Korea agree to resume 6-way talks
2006-10-31
China, the United States and North Korea agreed in talks Tuesday to resume the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs "at a convenient time in the near future" after a break of almost a year, a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said. Christopher Hill, U.S. head delegate to the six-party talks, told reporters after meeting with his Chinese and North Korean counterparts that while the precise date needs to be agreed by all six parties, he believes it will be "in November, or possibly in December."

Hill said North Korea did not attach any conditions for returning to the talks, but added the United States agreed to set up a mechanism for addressing Pyongyang's main complaint -- financial sanctions imposed on entities suspected of laundering money and counterfeiting for North Korea.
The announcement was made after a series of meetings in the Chinese capital among Hill, who is U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan on the same day. Hill said North Korea did not attach any conditions for returning to the talks, but added the United States agreed to set up a mechanism for addressing Pyongyang's main complaint -- financial sanctions imposed on entities suspected of laundering money and counterfeiting for North Korea. "We agreed we will find a mechanism within the six-party process to address these financial measures, that there would probably be some kind of a working group to deal with this," he said. North Korea had refused to return to the talks, saying it will not do so unless the United States lifted the sanctions, especially those imposed on a Macao-based bank since September 2005.

Hill also said North Korea reaffirmed its commitment to a joint statement issued in September 2005 by six nations, in which it had said it would abandon its nuclear programs in exchange for diplomatic and economic benefits. "We all reaffirmed, including the DPRK delegation, our commitment to the September statement and to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," he said.
Posted by:Fred

#9  I think somebody needs to watch the movie "Porkchop Hill" a few dozen times and pay attention to the negotiations scenes and what's being said by the actors there.

It paints a real clear picture of what these talks are all about from the NorKie perspective IMO.

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(For those who haven't seen the movie - or can't or won't for some reason, while Gregory Peck and the boys of Love Company are duking it out toe-to-toe with the Norkies and Chinese on some stupid nameless ridge, negotiations are going on at Panmunjom (sorry about the spelling) - in one scene the US negotiator gets exasperated at the commie negotiators and has to take a break before he kills somebody (the communists negotiator is smoking a cigarette and staring up at the ceiling - clearly not listening to a word the US negotiator is saying) - there's a great scene where an American general explains to him exactly what the commies are trying to do - stall for time in order to gain a victory and an upper hand in the negotiations).

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2006-10-31 23:27  

#8  IIRC Bobby had some links to San Diego, my hometown, that puts him back in the "suspect" range :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2006-10-31 20:26  

#7  :-D
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-10-31 19:50  

#6  I think Bobby has been taking lessons at the TW School of Ironic Self-Deprecation. LOL

Good job, both of you!
Posted by: lotp   2006-10-31 19:21  

#5  Bobby, dear, you graduated from lurker ages ago, and you've posted some very interesting articles since then.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-10-31 19:17  

#4  Far be it from me, a Lowly Lurker, to cast dispersions on The Lord of the 'Burg, His Fredness, but someone will no doubt observe this article was posted about four articles earlier.

Please, Sir, have one of your able assistants remove my earlier post and do not punish me too harshly for my indiscretion.

{Sorry, Fred, yours has a better picture, anyway!)
Posted by: Bobby   2006-10-31 18:16  

#3  We should say no aid until we come to certain basic terms and then spend months haggling over the shape of the table.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-10-31 13:19  

#2  So does this mean Peace in our Time and all that other good shit?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-10-31 11:51  

#1  Now we find out that China cut oil exports to Nkors in September to zero. Brought Kimmie right around. Of course, incessant talking to this dimwit is totally worthless.
Posted by: SpecOp35   2006-10-31 11:49  

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