Following his meeting with Kim Kye Gwan, the top North Korean nuclear envoy, South Korea’s nuclear envoy, Kim-Sook stated that Pyongyang was putting the final touches to a declaration on its nuclear development programs, and that it was trying to decide the date for its issuance. Kim-sook added that Pyongyang was waiting for Washington to complete its review of the 18,000-odd pages of documents that North Korea had handed a few weeks back1.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates meanwhile stated that despite intelligence pointing towards alleged cooperation between North Korea and Syria in developing a nuclear facility, the United States would continue the Six-Party Talks with the communist regime over its nuclear program2.