The United States Wednesday called on the the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to implement the

commitments it made on Monday at the six-party talks in Beijing to abandon its nuclear weapons.

"North Korea (DPRK) must now move rapidly, along with other parties, to implementation," US ambassador Gregory Schulte said while addressing a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) board of governors.

The DPRK should "take all steps necessary" to allow the IAEA to verify "the correctness and completeness of its declarations of nuclear material and activities," Schulte said.

He said all elements of the DPRK's past and present nuclear programs - including programs involving plutonium and uranium - and all nuclear weapons should be "comprehensively declared and eliminated, and never be reconstituted in the future."

Speaking highly of the fourth round of six-party talks in Beijing that ended on Monday with a joint-statement, Schulte said the next phase of the six-party talks would be "critical and urgent."

He said the US has offered the DPRK an opening to the normalization of relations, once denuclearization is complete.

"We look forward to working with all the other parties, ... to move rapidly in the six-party talks on an agreement to implement the goals outlined in the Joint Statement," he added.

Source: Xinhua