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China offers revised disarmament proposal
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-16 18:47 Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington was
taking measures to stop the spread of nuclear technology regardless of what
happens at the North Korea talks, through intelligence sharing and freezing of
assets of those involved.
"We're not sitting still, you know, we're working on anti-proliferation
measures that help to protect us," Rice told the New York Post in an interview
released Thursday by the State Department. "So we're not wholly dependent on
negotiations to get this done."
Hill urged Beijing to press North Korea, its longtime ally, to give up its
nuclear weapons without receiving a reactor. The North has already been offered
incentives including economic aid, security guarantees from Washington and free
electricity from South Korea.
Hill said China, the North's last major ally and its leading supplier of food
and energy aid, has a responsibility to exercise its influence with the North.
"I hope that China will feel a certain responsibility to
try to convince the DPRK that the deal is there on the table and it only awaits
the decision of the DPRK to take that deal," Hill said Friday morning, referring
to the North by the initials of its official name.
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