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Mon, 09/14/2009 - 17:26
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Kim Jong-Il threatens with another nuke test to US sanctions.
SEOUL, September 14 (Itar-Tass) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has threatened to carry out another nuclear test if the United States and the international community activate sanctions against North Korea, Seoul media write on Monday with reference to the Open Radio for North Korea (ORNK).
Seoul-based Open Radio for North Korea, like the Voice of America,
broadcasts news and information via short-wave radio into North Korean
territory on a daily basis.
According to a version of the organisation, during his visit to the
Wonsan city in the Kangwondo province on August 26 the North Korean leader
called on the local party and military leaders to "be fully determined to
carry out a third more powerful nuclear test, if instead of developing
dialogue with the North the United States continues reinforcing sanctions."
The North Korean leader also stressed the possibility of the
resumption of the six-sided talks on denuclearisation of the Korean
Peninsula on the condition of the beginning of a direct dialogue between
Pyongyang and Washington.
In the view of the ORNK, the third nuclear test may be carried out in
the period from September 20 - the date of the official end of the "150-
day struggle" when many citizens of the country are sent for agricultural
works, and October 10 when the country will mark the next anniversary of
the foundation of the Korean Workers' Party.
Official Seoul has so far not commented on these reports.
According to the Yonhap news agency, the US announced last week that
it will soon undertake bilateral negotiations with North Korea to persuade
it to return to the suspended six-party talks, which Pyongyang boycotted
claiming the forum was being used to infringe upon its sovereign right to
develop nuclear and space technology.
It said Pyongyang had demanded that Washington deal with the communist
regime bilaterally in order to secure a breakthrough, while Washington
insisted on sticking to the six-party process that also involves South
Korea, China, Japan and Russia. Details of the upcoming meeting have yet
to be decided. "We are not against bilateral talks between the US and
North Korea, if they do not replace the six-party talks and are intended
to expedite the six-party process aimed at denuclearising North Korea,"
Moon Tae-young, spokesperson with Seoul's foreign ministry, said at a
press briefing. Moon underlined the presence of a "joint recognition '
between Seoul and Washington on the need to resume the six-party talks.
The spokesperson also said the two countries hold a consensus that UN
sanctions imposed on North Korea for its nuclear tests and military
provocations should be maintained while keeping the door open for dialogue.
On inter-Korean dialogue, Moon said South Korea does not yet have any
plans to hold direct talks with the North during the UN General Assembly
scheduled for next week in New York.
-0-ezh/ast
Seoul-based Open Radio for North Korea, like the Voice of America,
broadcasts news and information via short-wave radio into North Korean
territory on a daily basis.
According to a version of the organisation, during his visit to the
Wonsan city in the Kangwondo province on August 26 the North Korean leader
called on the local party and military leaders to "be fully determined to
carry out a third more powerful nuclear test, if instead of developing
dialogue with the North the United States continues reinforcing sanctions."
The North Korean leader also stressed the possibility of the
resumption of the six-sided talks on denuclearisation of the Korean
Peninsula on the condition of the beginning of a direct dialogue between
Pyongyang and Washington.
In the view of the ORNK, the third nuclear test may be carried out in
the period from September 20 - the date of the official end of the "150-
day struggle" when many citizens of the country are sent for agricultural
works, and October 10 when the country will mark the next anniversary of
the foundation of the Korean Workers' Party.
Official Seoul has so far not commented on these reports.
According to the Yonhap news agency, the US announced last week that
it will soon undertake bilateral negotiations with North Korea to persuade
it to return to the suspended six-party talks, which Pyongyang boycotted
claiming the forum was being used to infringe upon its sovereign right to
develop nuclear and space technology.
It said Pyongyang had demanded that Washington deal with the communist
regime bilaterally in order to secure a breakthrough, while Washington
insisted on sticking to the six-party process that also involves South
Korea, China, Japan and Russia. Details of the upcoming meeting have yet
to be decided. "We are not against bilateral talks between the US and
North Korea, if they do not replace the six-party talks and are intended
to expedite the six-party process aimed at denuclearising North Korea,"
Moon Tae-young, spokesperson with Seoul's foreign ministry, said at a
press briefing. Moon underlined the presence of a "joint recognition '
between Seoul and Washington on the need to resume the six-party talks.
The spokesperson also said the two countries hold a consensus that UN
sanctions imposed on North Korea for its nuclear tests and military
provocations should be maintained while keeping the door open for dialogue.
On inter-Korean dialogue, Moon said South Korea does not yet have any
plans to hold direct talks with the North during the UN General Assembly
scheduled for next week in New York.
-0-ezh/ast
