Powell: US, South Korea Committed to Restart N. Korea Nuclear Talks

Washington   26 October 2004

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States and South Korea have reconfirmed their commitment to restart six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

Mr. Powell told reporters in Seoul Tuesday following talks with South Korea's Unification Minister Chung Dong-young that it is time to move forward with more nuclear talks, adding the issue must come to a conclusion.

Earlier, a South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman said Mr. Powell told Mr. Chung that he believed six-party talks will take place after next week's U.S. presidential election.

Mr. Powell, who is wrapping up a three-nation Asian tour, has been trying to forge a multilateral strategy to get Pyongyang unconditionally back to the nuclear weapons talks it boycotted last month.

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