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Hillary Clinton brokers denuclearization talks between the U.S and North Korea
by Joseph Earnest July 25, 2011
Newscast Media NEW YORK -- For the first time in almost two years, a top North Korea envoy will visit New York later this week for exploratory talks on the possibility of resuming the six-party negotiations on denuclearization. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the North's vice foreign minister and former nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye-Gwan, would visit the US "later this week" for the talks.
"Following the first round of denuclearisation talks between the nuclear negotiators of the Republic of Korea and North Korea, the United States has invited North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kae-gwan to New York later this week," Clinton said in a statement. Kim's visit will mark the resumption of US-North Korean dialogue 19 months after Stephen Bosworth, the top US envoy on Korean peninsula affairs, visited Pyongyang in December 2009.
In a statement released to reporters as she left Indonesia after three days of intense engagement with East Asian foreign ministers, Clinton said Kim would meet with an interagency team of US officials.
Their discussions would focus on the "next steps necessary to resume denuclearization negotiations through the six-party talks", she said.
"This will be an exploratory meeting to determine if North Korea is prepared to affirm its obligations under international and six-party talk commitments, as well as take concrete and irreversible steps toward denuclearization," Clinton said.
"We do not intend to reward the North just for returning to the table," Clinton said.
"We will not give them anything new for actions they have already agreed to take. And we have no appetite for pursuing protracted negotiations that will only lead us right back to where we have already been."
The six-party denuclearization forum, grouping two Koreas, the US, Japan, China and Russia, has been deadlocked since the last meeting in December 2008.
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