China makes efforts to take the stalled de-nuclearisation process forward; Hill meets North Korean nuclear envoy in Beijing; Pyongyang asks Tokyo to leave the Six-Party talks
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    • Efforts were made this week to take the stalled North Korean de-nuclearisation process forward. Wang Jiarui, Director of the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee met Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to press Pyongyang to resume the denuclearisation process in light of the forthcoming US elections1.

    Christopher Hill, the US envoy to the North Korean denuclearisation process stated that
    Pyongyang should provide the complete declaration of its activities for the process to move forward2. Ambassador Hill was speaking to reporters after his meeting in Beijing with Kim Kye Gwan, the North Korean nuclear envoy to the denuclearisation process.

    In other developments, North Korea has indicated that it would need more aid before it moves forward on the denuclearisation process. This was disclosed to reporters by Siegfried Hecker, a Stanford University physicist, and Joel Wit, a former State Department expert who recently visited Pyongyang3.

    Pyongyang has also called on Japan to withdraw from the Six-Party talks, charging Tokyo for lacking the “political ability” to deal with the issue. The official Korean Central News Agency cited Minju Joson, a member of the North Korean cabinet as stating that Japan was “taking much pain to turn the Six-Party talks into a platform for confrontation4.”

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