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DPRK`s uranium enrichment prog is attempt to make n-weapon - view
SOUL, January 13 (Itar-Tass) - The DPRK's uranium enrichment programme
is a clear attempt to make nuclear weapon, which causes concern about
Pyongyang's nuclear abilities, South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim
Sung-Hwan said in an interview to the Yonhap agency on Thursday.
He doubted the uranium enrichment programme could be a means to solve
the energy problem as the North had claimed.
It is necessary to stop the programme to enrich uranium, as it
violates several resolutions of the UN Security Council and Pyongyang's
own obligations of 2005 to refuse from nuclear programmes, Sung-Hwan said.
He called the DPRK to join obligatory the non-proliferation agreement
and to follow the requirements of the IAEA if Pyongyang intends to
continue the programme to enrich uranium in the framework of peaceful use
of nuclear energy. The Yonhap agency wrote that the North had left the
non-proliferation agreement, sent the IAEA inspectors out of the country
and had two nuclear tests.
Sung-Hwan commented on Pyongyang's suggestion to renew the
inter-Korean dialogue, saying that prior to that the North should confirm
its responsibility for the sinking of the Cheonan corvette, it also should
apologise for the armed provocation against the Yeonpyeong Island and to
promise not to undertake any actions of the kind in future.
As for the North's call to have a peace agreement, Kim Sung-Hwan said
that the document should first of all be signed by the two Koreas, but not
by Pyongyang and Washington, as the DPRK insists. The agreement, which
could formally put an end to the Korea War of 1950-1953, may be later on
supported by China and the USA, he added.
Sung-Hwan could not forecast when the sextet talks on denuclearisation
of the Korean Peninsula might be resumed and said that everything depended
on the DPRK. If the North wants the talks to be resumed, Pyongyang should
agree with Seoul's requirements and show realistic steps towards removing
its nuclear programmes, Kim Sung-Hawn concluded.
-0-kar/gor
is a clear attempt to make nuclear weapon, which causes concern about
Pyongyang's nuclear abilities, South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim
Sung-Hwan said in an interview to the Yonhap agency on Thursday.
He doubted the uranium enrichment programme could be a means to solve
the energy problem as the North had claimed.
It is necessary to stop the programme to enrich uranium, as it
violates several resolutions of the UN Security Council and Pyongyang's
own obligations of 2005 to refuse from nuclear programmes, Sung-Hwan said.
He called the DPRK to join obligatory the non-proliferation agreement
and to follow the requirements of the IAEA if Pyongyang intends to
continue the programme to enrich uranium in the framework of peaceful use
of nuclear energy. The Yonhap agency wrote that the North had left the
non-proliferation agreement, sent the IAEA inspectors out of the country
and had two nuclear tests.
Sung-Hwan commented on Pyongyang's suggestion to renew the
inter-Korean dialogue, saying that prior to that the North should confirm
its responsibility for the sinking of the Cheonan corvette, it also should
apologise for the armed provocation against the Yeonpyeong Island and to
promise not to undertake any actions of the kind in future.
As for the North's call to have a peace agreement, Kim Sung-Hwan said
that the document should first of all be signed by the two Koreas, but not
by Pyongyang and Washington, as the DPRK insists. The agreement, which
could formally put an end to the Korea War of 1950-1953, may be later on
supported by China and the USA, he added.
Sung-Hwan could not forecast when the sextet talks on denuclearisation
of the Korean Peninsula might be resumed and said that everything depended
on the DPRK. If the North wants the talks to be resumed, Pyongyang should
agree with Seoul's requirements and show realistic steps towards removing
its nuclear programmes, Kim Sung-Hawn concluded.
-0-kar/gor
