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China secretly offered US trilateral N Korea nuke talks-WikiLeaks
TOKYO, November 30 (Itar-Tass) - China had secretly proposed to
Washington to hold tripartite talks between officials of China, the United Sates and North Korea to solve the problems related to Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
It is stated in a secret American diplomatic cable that has been made public through the WikiLeaks organisation the Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
China's proposal, made last April, was actually aimed at substituting the mechanism of the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme, in which representatives of the two Koreas, China, Russia, the United States and Japan participated.
This system of dialogue has stalled since autumn 2008 due to sharp contradictions between Washington and Pyongyang.
However, to all appearances, the US side had not responded to the idea of tripartite talks, as it currently sees no willingness of North Korea to eliminate its nuclear programme.
The American diplomatic documents made public by WikiLeaks on Monday also indicated that Seoul had predicted the inevitable collapse of the North Korean regime "within two or three years" after the death of the cuntry's leader Kim Jong Il.
It is said in one of the secret telegrams hat this assumption was made last December by Vice Minister of Foreign ffairs and Trade of South Korea Chun Yung Woo in a conversation with US mbassador in Seoul Kathleen Stephens.
According to the South Korean diplomat, a new generation of Chinese eaders will not act against a Korea unified by Seoul and in an alliance ith Washington. To gain the favour of Beijing, said Chun, it is possible o give Chinese companies specific business opportunities in the territory f current North Korea.
According to Kyodo, a top South Korean official has told the US envoy o Seoul that North Korea will collapse "two to three years" after its eader Kim Jong Il dies, The New York Times reported Monday, quoting iplomatic cables leaked by the controversial website WikiLeaks.
In its lectronic version, the US daily said that the prediction was made in late ebruary by Chun Yung Woo, the vice foreign minister, to US Ambassador to outh Korea Kathleen Stephens, who later cabled Washington.
Chun then redicted that a new, younger generation of Chinese leaders "would be omfortable with a reunited Korea controlled by Seoul and anchored to the nited States in a benign alliance," the report said.
South Korea was already planning to assure Chinese companies that they ould have ample commercial opportunities in the mineral-rich northern art of the Korean Peninsula, lest China, the North's powerful ally, hould feel disturbed by the prospect of a Seoul-controlled peninsula, ccording to the report.
It also quoted two senior Chinese Foreign Ministry officials as
reporting in June 2009 that Chinese experts believed North Korea's uranium nrichment "was only in its initial phases," despite Pyongyang's evelation this month that an industrial-scale enrichment plant was lready under construction.
"It was apparently missed by both American and hinese intelligence services," the report said.
The six-party nuclear talks were a result of North Korea withdrawing rom the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2003. Apparent gains ollowing the fourth and fifth rounds were reversed by outside events.
Five rounds of talks from 2003 to 2007 produced little net progress until he third phase of the fifth round of talks, when North Korea agreed to hut down its nuclear facilities in exchange for fuel aid and steps owards the normalisation of relations with the United States and Japan.
Esponding angrily to the United Nations Security Council's Presidential tatement issued on April 13, 2009 that condemned the North Korean failed atellite launch, the DPRK declared on April 14, 2009 that it would pull ut of Six Party Talks and that it would resume its nuclear enrichment rogramme in order to boost its nuclear deterrent.
North Korea has also xpelled all nuclear inspectors from the country.
Washington to hold tripartite talks between officials of China, the United Sates and North Korea to solve the problems related to Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
It is stated in a secret American diplomatic cable that has been made public through the WikiLeaks organisation the Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
China's proposal, made last April, was actually aimed at substituting the mechanism of the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme, in which representatives of the two Koreas, China, Russia, the United States and Japan participated.
This system of dialogue has stalled since autumn 2008 due to sharp contradictions between Washington and Pyongyang.
However, to all appearances, the US side had not responded to the idea of tripartite talks, as it currently sees no willingness of North Korea to eliminate its nuclear programme.
The American diplomatic documents made public by WikiLeaks on Monday also indicated that Seoul had predicted the inevitable collapse of the North Korean regime "within two or three years" after the death of the cuntry's leader Kim Jong Il.
It is said in one of the secret telegrams hat this assumption was made last December by Vice Minister of Foreign ffairs and Trade of South Korea Chun Yung Woo in a conversation with US mbassador in Seoul Kathleen Stephens.
According to the South Korean diplomat, a new generation of Chinese eaders will not act against a Korea unified by Seoul and in an alliance ith Washington. To gain the favour of Beijing, said Chun, it is possible o give Chinese companies specific business opportunities in the territory f current North Korea.
According to Kyodo, a top South Korean official has told the US envoy o Seoul that North Korea will collapse "two to three years" after its eader Kim Jong Il dies, The New York Times reported Monday, quoting iplomatic cables leaked by the controversial website WikiLeaks.
In its lectronic version, the US daily said that the prediction was made in late ebruary by Chun Yung Woo, the vice foreign minister, to US Ambassador to outh Korea Kathleen Stephens, who later cabled Washington.
Chun then redicted that a new, younger generation of Chinese leaders "would be omfortable with a reunited Korea controlled by Seoul and anchored to the nited States in a benign alliance," the report said.
South Korea was already planning to assure Chinese companies that they ould have ample commercial opportunities in the mineral-rich northern art of the Korean Peninsula, lest China, the North's powerful ally, hould feel disturbed by the prospect of a Seoul-controlled peninsula, ccording to the report.
It also quoted two senior Chinese Foreign Ministry officials as
reporting in June 2009 that Chinese experts believed North Korea's uranium nrichment "was only in its initial phases," despite Pyongyang's evelation this month that an industrial-scale enrichment plant was lready under construction.
"It was apparently missed by both American and hinese intelligence services," the report said.
The six-party nuclear talks were a result of North Korea withdrawing rom the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2003. Apparent gains ollowing the fourth and fifth rounds were reversed by outside events.
Five rounds of talks from 2003 to 2007 produced little net progress until he third phase of the fifth round of talks, when North Korea agreed to hut down its nuclear facilities in exchange for fuel aid and steps owards the normalisation of relations with the United States and Japan.
Esponding angrily to the United Nations Security Council's Presidential tatement issued on April 13, 2009 that condemned the North Korean failed atellite launch, the DPRK declared on April 14, 2009 that it would pull ut of Six Party Talks and that it would resume its nuclear enrichment rogramme in order to boost its nuclear deterrent.
North Korea has also xpelled all nuclear inspectors from the country.
