US envoy: Nuke talks still 'in business' (AP) Updated: 2005-09-16 17:03 In New York, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said any comprehensive
settlement of the nuclear standoff would have to include normalization of
relations between North Korea and the United States.
Roh, who is attending a U.N. summit, said he was optimistic the crisis could
be resolved but that it still makes him nervous.
"Every time I think about the North Korean nuclear weapons issue, I always
pray to God," he said. "I ask you to do the same."
Despite the nuclear standoff, the North and South have continued
reconciliation efforts while remaining technically at war. On Friday at
high-level talks between the two sides in Pyongyang, the Koreas pledged to work
to ensure peace and reduce military tensions on the divided peninsula.
According to a Xinhua report, the Chinese side has provided a draft document
to the other parties and asked them to make reply by Saturday afternoon.
Citing unidentified sources, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported that
North Korea told other nations at the negotiations that it would boost its
production of nuclear material if its demand for such a reactor isn't met.
"The basic stumbling block has to do with the issue of
providing a light-water reactor," North Korean spokesman Hyun Hak Bong said
Thursday in the first comment from the delegation since the talks resumed.
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