DPRK vows to make out good result at six-party talks
By (Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-02-24 09:29

Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) said Tuesday his country will do its best to achieve "good results" at the six-party talks scheduled to open in Beijing on Feb. 25.

The senior official made the remarks as he headed a delegation for Beijing to attend the talks.

"The circumstance of the talks is better than the previous one,and we hope that we can cooperate closely with China and Russia," he said at the Sunan airport in Pyongyang.

"We appreciate the efforts done by the Chinese side. We will doour best to make out good result at the talks," Kim Kye-gwan told Wu Donghe, the Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

Russian and Chinese diplomats including Wu went to the airport to see Kim and his entourage off at the airport.

The proposal put forward by the DPRK on the issue accords with the United State's interests, Kim said. If the United States changes its policies, the nuclear issue can be resolved.

The official said that "the abduction issue" should not be on the agenda of the talks as the DPRK had clarified its positions onthe issue when a Japanese foreign ministry delegation visited his country earlier this month.

The DPRK admitted at a summit meeting in 2002 that it abducted 13 Japanese in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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