DPRK to hand over nuclear report

DPRK to hand over long-awaited nuclear report
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Source: CCTV.com | 06-25-2008 08:15
The six-party talks are alive. The Democratic People's Republic Korea will reportedly hand over a long-awaited list of its nuclear activities as soon as Thursday.
It's also invited foreign television stations to broadcast its planned destruction of a cooling tower - a key facility - at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Liu Jianchao, says the Korean Peninsula denuclearization process is complex, but hope remains.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao said, "We're happy that none of the parties involved has given up. We hope that the six-party talks agreement will be implemented comprehensively and effectively, so as to begin the next phase of the nuclear talks."

Liu Jianchao said China has not received declarations of all nuclear programs from the DPRK, but he believes all six parties have achieved positive progress.

The top Chinese negotiator to the six-party talks, Wu Dawei, and his US counterpart, Christopher Hill, met in Beijing on Monday. The two sides discussed what will happen after Pyongyang submits its overdue list of nuclear programs.

Christopher Hill said, "In addition to laying out all their facilities, they have to give us a verifiable figure on how much plutonium they have We need to have a pretty clear picture of what the plutonium is and then we go to the next phase and hope to get that same amount of plutonium abandoned, that is, turned over."

Under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in Beijing in February 2007, the DPRK agreed to disable its nuclear facilities and fully account for its nuclear programs in exchange for economic and political concessions.

But it missed the December 31st deadline despite reported progress.

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