OBAMA SAYS ALLIES AIM TO `BREAK PATTERN' IN NORTH KOREA TALKS
Edwin Chen and Julianna Goldman
Bloomberg, November 19, 2009
President Barack Obama said he and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak aim to “break the pattern” in dealing with North Korea in which the regime in Pyongyang alternates between provocation and negotiation.
Obama said he will send his special envoy, Stephen Bosworth, to North Korea on Dec. 8 in an effort to resume the stalled six- party talks over North Korea’s nuclear program.
“The door is open to resolving these issues,” Obama said in a joint news conference with Lee in Seoul today. “But it will only happen if North Korea is taking serious steps” toward getting rid of its nuclear weapons program.
North Korea and a stalled U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement topped the agenda for Obama’s visit to Seoul, the final stop on the president’s eight-day trip to Asia. Talks over North Korea’s nuclear program with the U.S., Japan, China, Russia and South Korea stalled last year, and North Korea formally quit the forum to protest the UN condemnation of its April 5 firing of a rocket over the Sea of Japan.
Obama said he and Lee “agree on the need to break a pattern that has existed in the past in which North Korea behaves in provocative fashion; it then is willing to return to talks; it talks for a while, and then it leaves the talks seeking further exceptions and is never actually making progress on the core issues.”
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Edwin Chen and Julianna Goldman
Bloomberg, November 19, 2009
President Barack Obama said he and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak aim to “break the pattern” in dealing with North Korea in which the regime in Pyongyang alternates between provocation and negotiation.
Obama said he will send his special envoy, Stephen Bosworth, to North Korea on Dec. 8 in an effort to resume the stalled six- party talks over North Korea’s nuclear program.
“The door is open to resolving these issues,” Obama said in a joint news conference with Lee in Seoul today. “But it will only happen if North Korea is taking serious steps” toward getting rid of its nuclear weapons program.
North Korea and a stalled U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement topped the agenda for Obama’s visit to Seoul, the final stop on the president’s eight-day trip to Asia. Talks over North Korea’s nuclear program with the U.S., Japan, China, Russia and South Korea stalled last year, and North Korea formally quit the forum to protest the UN condemnation of its April 5 firing of a rocket over the Sea of Japan.
Obama said he and Lee “agree on the need to break a pattern that has existed in the past in which North Korea behaves in provocative fashion; it then is willing to return to talks; it talks for a while, and then it leaves the talks seeking further exceptions and is never actually making progress on the core issues.”
(...) [artículo aquí]
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