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UN envoy arrives in N.Korea
BEIJING — UN envoy Lynn Pascoe arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, China's state Xinhua news agency reported, on a mission to try to revive long-stalled six-party nuclear disarmament talks.Pascoe,…
BEIJING — UN envoy Lynn Pascoe arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, China's state Xinhua news agency reported, on a mission to try to revive long-stalled six-party nuclear disarmament talks.Pascoe, UN chief Ban Ki-moon's top political adviser, is the first high-level official from the world body to visit North Korea since 2004.He said on arrival that his meetings would focus on enhancing cooperation between the North and the United Nations, Xinhua said.As conditions for a return to nuclear disarmament dialogue, the North Korea wants Washington to agree to hold formal peace talks and seeks a lifting of the UN sanctions. Kim Jong-Il restated North Korea's goal of ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons and reportedly sent his top nuclear envoy to Beijing, amid a diplomatic drive to revive disarmament talks.The North's leader made his remarks Monday to senior Chinese official Wang Jiarui, who was visiting Pyongyang to try to coax the North back to the six-nation talks which it angrily abandoned last April.Kim "reiterated on Monday the country's persistent stance to realise the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula" during his meeting with Wang, according to China's official Xinhua new agency."The sincerity of relevant parties to resume the six-party talks is very important," it quoted Kim as saying.The report did not indicate whether the North is about to end its boycott of the forum.Its top nuclear negotiator Kim Kye-Gwan flew to Beijing Tuesday along with Wang, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported from the Chinese capital. Analysts said the North, hit by tougher United Nations sanctions for its 2009 missile launches and nuclear test, may be seeking a way to return to the talks which group the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the United States.Wang gave Kim a message from Chinese President Hu Jintao, who renewed an invitation to visit Beijing, Xinhua reported.As conditions for a return to nuclear disarmament dialogue, the North Korea wants Washington to agree to hold formal peace talks an
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