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NYT - July 10, 2005
By JOEL BRINKLEY
and DAVID E. SANGER
BEIJING, July 9 - After more than a year of stalemate, North Korea agreed Saturday evening to return to disarmament talks late this month and pledged to discuss eliminating its nuclear-weapons program, according to senior Bush administration officials.
The agreement came during a dinner meeting, with the Chinese as the hosts, between Christopher Hill, a former American ambassador to South Korea who has recently become the lead United States negotiator to the talks, and Kim Kye Gwan, North Korea’s deputy foreign minister, according to a senior administration official traveling here with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The official Korean Central News Agency also issued a statement from Pyongyang announcing that the talks would resume.
While the North Koreans have pledged many times before to return to the six-party talks - the United States, Japan, South Korea, China and Russia also sit at the table - this is the first time they have actually set a date: the week of July 25. . . .
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By JOEL BRINKLEY
and DAVID E. SANGER
BEIJING, July 9 - After more than a year of stalemate, North Korea agreed Saturday evening to return to disarmament talks late this month and pledged to discuss eliminating its nuclear-weapons program, according to senior Bush administration officials.
The agreement came during a dinner meeting, with the Chinese as the hosts, between Christopher Hill, a former American ambassador to South Korea who has recently become the lead United States negotiator to the talks, and Kim Kye Gwan, North Korea’s deputy foreign minister, according to a senior administration official traveling here with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The official Korean Central News Agency also issued a statement from Pyongyang announcing that the talks would resume.
While the North Koreans have pledged many times before to return to the six-party talks - the United States, Japan, South Korea, China and Russia also sit at the table - this is the first time they have actually set a date: the week of July 25. . . .
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