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U.S. special envoy to DPRK, Stephen Bosworth (front), and Sung Kim, top U.S. nuclear negotiator, leave after their meeting with South Korean nuclear envoy to DPRK, Wi Sung-lac, at the foreign ministry in Seoul September 5, 2009. [Xinhua/Reuters Photo] |
Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) policies, met with South Korean senior officials Saturday to coordinate stance on the nuclear issue on the Korea Peninsula.
Bosworth and South Korea's top nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac assessed Pyongyang's recent moves on its nuclear weapons program and its demands for lifting sanctions and holding DPRK-U.S. dialogue, and reviewed a joint response to Pyongyang's so-called "two-track" tactic, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency quoted government sources as saying.
In a letter to the president of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday, the DPRK claimed that the reprocessing of spent fuel rods "is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponized."
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U.S. special envoy to DPRK Stephen Bosworth (L) and South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek pose for photographs during their meeting at the South Korea-DPRK Dialogue Office in Seoul September 5, 2009. DPRK said on Friday it was closer to a second way of making nuclear weapons, a move analysts saw as a new tactic to put pressure on the international community after a month of conciliatory gestures. [Xinhua/Reuters Photo] |
The letter, sent by the permanent representative of the DPRK to the United Nations, also said the "experimental uranium enrichment has successfully been conducted to enter into the completion phase."
Bosworth and Wi also reiterated their support to the goal of seeking complete and irreversible denuclearization of the DPRK, and discussed on a "comprehensive package" of incentives for the DPRK, initially brought up by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during the South Korea-U.S. summit in Washington in June.
The two officials also discussed ways to re-launch the six-party disarmament talks and strengthen cooperation between Seoul and Washington.
Bosworth also held a meeting with South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek, during which the two sides exchanged views on recent inter-Korean ties and the nuclear issue, and agreed to make more efforts and enhance consultations between the two nations to re-launch the six-party talks, the Unification Ministry said in a statement released after the meeting.
The U.S. envoy will have a breakfast meeting with Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan on Sunday.
Bosworth, currently on a three-nation Asian trip, arrived here on Friday after concluding a visit to China. He will also visit Japan.
(Xinhua News Agency September 5, 2009)
