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U.S. Expected to Demand North Korean Acknowledgement of Uranium Program
The United States, Japan and South Korea agreed during a meeting held late last month in Washington to demand during the next round of multilateral talks on North Korea’s nuclear program that Pyongyang disclose its suspected uranium enrichment program, Japanese government sources said Saturday (see GSN, Feb. 4). North Korea has denied possessing a uranium enrichment program, but has acknowledged a plutonium-based nuclear weapons program. The United States, Japan and South Korea believe it is important to clarify North Korea’s nuclear efforts before Pyongyang can be forced to abandon its total nuclear program in an irreversible and verifiable manner, according to the Daily Yomiuri. The United States is considering presenting North Korea with some of its proof of Pyongyang’s uranium enrichment program during the planned talks, the Daily Yomiuri reported (Daily Yomiuri, Feb. 8). Meanwhile, Pyongyang said today that China has expressed support for its proposal to freeze its nuclear weapons program in exchange for economic concessions from the United States, according to the Associated Press. China indicated its support during a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries that ended today in Beijing, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The Chinese foreign minister “recognized the rationality” of Pyongyang’s offer, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said (Jae-Suk Yoo, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Feb. 10).
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