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China finds US policy main obstacle in North Korean nuclear crisis
Manila, Sep 01: US policy on North Korea is the biggest obstacle to resolving the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula, China`s chief delegate to the Six-Nation Talks on the stand-off said here today.
Manila, Sep 01: US policy on North Korea is the biggest obstacle to resolving the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula, China's chief delegate to the Six-Nation
Talks on the stand-off said here today.
Asked by reporters what he thought was the main obstacle to progress, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, said: "the American policy towards DPRK -- this is the main problem we are facing."
North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), had said its expectations at last week's talks also involving China, Japan, Russia and South Korea had been "betrayed" by "hostile" US policy.
North Korea also described the discussions as "pointless" and threw into doubt its participation at the next round of talks.
Washington has reportedly rejected Pyongyang's demand for a non-aggression pact and other concessions as a precondition to dismantling its nuclear programmes.
Wang, who is accompanying China's number two leader Wu Bangguo to an Asian Parliamentary meeting in Manila, indicated that Washington might have to make its position on North Korea clearer.
"We want the United States to make clear about its position," he said when asked to elaborate his view that Washington and Pyongyang could still finally resolve their differences through compromise.
"We hope each party, including the US and DPRK, move together so we can find the final solution," he said as he assessed the maiden round of the Beijing negotiations.
Bureau Report
Asked by reporters what he thought was the main obstacle to progress, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, said: "the American policy towards DPRK -- this is the main problem we are facing."
North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), had said its expectations at last week's talks also involving China, Japan, Russia and South Korea had been "betrayed" by "hostile" US policy.
North Korea also described the discussions as "pointless" and threw into doubt its participation at the next round of talks.
Washington has reportedly rejected Pyongyang's demand for a non-aggression pact and other concessions as a precondition to dismantling its nuclear programmes.
Wang, who is accompanying China's number two leader Wu Bangguo to an Asian Parliamentary meeting in Manila, indicated that Washington might have to make its position on North Korea clearer.
"We want the United States to make clear about its position," he said when asked to elaborate his view that Washington and Pyongyang could still finally resolve their differences through compromise.
"We hope each party, including the US and DPRK, move together so we can find the final solution," he said as he assessed the maiden round of the Beijing negotiations.
Bureau Report