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"World War Three 2003" |
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07 Aug 2003 09:55:31 PM |
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World War III ***NEWS*** Friday, August 8th, 2003....+ |
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China Envoy in N.Korea, Pyongyang Slams U.S. Drills
A Chinese delegation arrived in North Korea on Thursday as speculation
focused on late August or early September as likely dates for
six-party talks in Beijing to defuse a crisis over the communist
state's nuclear intentions.
The official KCNA news agency said the Chinese Foreign Ministry
delegation was headed by Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who has played
a central role in efforts to bring the North to the negotiating table.
North Korea, which had been holding out for face-to-face talks with
the United States, agreed to join the United States, China, Japan,
South Korea and Russia in six-way talks in Beijing. A date has yet to
be announced.
The KCNA report gave no details on the visit, describing it simply as
part of bilateral exchanges.
China is the isolated North's closest ally and main source of its food
and energy. With diplomacy heating up in the nearly 10-month-old
nuclear crisis, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing is slated to
visit South Korea from August 13 to 15.
North Korea said on Monday it expected six-country talks over its
nuclear program to take place soon in Beijing, four months after
initial talks in April with China and the United States.
Earlier on Thursday, North Korea criticized annual joint war exercises
between the United States and South Korea, saying they raised doubts
as to whether Washington would soften its hostility toward the
communist state ahead of the six-party talks.
"SINISTER STRATEGIC GOAL"
The United States, which will hold computer simulation drills with
South Korea from August 18 to 29, has 37,000 troops in the South. The
U.S. forces bolster the South's military, which is about two-thirds
the size of North Korea's 1.1 million-strong force.
"The adventurous war game is aimed at steadily intensifying tensions
on the Korean peninsula and, eventually, making a pre-emptive attack
on the DPRK and attaining sinister strategic goal of the U.S. in
Northeast Asia," said a statement by the North Korean Foreign
Ministry.
"This leaves us skeptical about the U.S. willingness to discard its
hostile policy toward the DPRK and make a policy switchover," said the
statement, published by KCNA.
DPRK stands for Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
North Korea blames U.S. hostility for its decision to scrap a series
of international non-proliferation pledges in a quest to build nuclear
weapons.
The Ulji Focus Lens drills, conducted annually for the past three
decades, involve computer-simulated war games to test U.S. and South
Korean commanders' readiness for emergencies on the peninsula.
North and South Korea remain technically at war, because the 1950-53
Korean War ended without a peace treaty.
North Korea routinely demands the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from
the peninsula. On Thursday, it said a U.S. pull-out would "lead to the
peace of Korea, the security of the Korean nation and its independent
reunification."
The prospect of fresh negotiations follows months of tension after
Washington announced last October that the North had disclosed it was
pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program.
The nuclear crisis escalated this year when North Korea expelled U.N.
nuclear inspectors, pulled out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
and restarted a mothballed reactor at Yongbyon, north of the capital,
Pyongyang.
Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said on Thursday North Korea wanted
to hold the six-way talks in the first week of September while China
wanted to start them on August 21 or 25.
Reporting from Washington and quoting "related sources," the newspaper
said the United States also favored having the negotiations in August
because the annual meeting of the United Nation's General Assembly
would be held in September.
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