DPRK for resumption of six-nation talks but hope fading away - ambassador
MOSCOW. Feb 4 (Interfax) - Pyongyang stands for the resumption of six-nation negotiations on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and urges the United States to abandon its hostile policy, North Korean Ambassador to Russia Kim Yong Jae said at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday.
"We are not opposed to the launch of negotiations and a genuine discussion of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the region," Kim said.
"Yet we are concerned that the hope for a resumption of the six-nation negotiations is fading away because of the invariably hostile U.S. policy towards our country; they are holding a policy of sanctions, thrusting unilateral dismantlement of the nuclear program on us and setting unfounded preconditions," the ambassador underscored.
The six-nation negotiations had their ups and downs, he said. "We believe that the six-nation negotiations aim at liquidating the sources of the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula, and these negotiations must be held in the spirit of the respect for sovereignty and equality and eventually lead to denuclearization of the entire Korean Peninsula," Kim said.
"We do not object to the resumption of the negotiations but until the U.S. demonstrates its readiness to stop its hostile policy towards the DPRK, which is the primary source of the problem of the Korean Peninsula, we will never make unilateral progress on that," the ambassador said.
