South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said Friday that the latest six-party talks on the nuclear issues was not a failure.
It is too early to doubt the effectiveness of multinational talks on Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament although nuclear talks failed to break the deadlock, Yu said at a conference with ruling party lawmakers.
"Although it has been slow, the six nations generally agree a considerable amount of progress has been made on Pyongyang's denuclearization," he added.
The official said the incoming U.S. leader Barack Obama, who will take office in late January, will tackle Pyongyang's denuclearization within the six-party talks framework.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (4th L) takes a group photo with top nuclear negotiators in a fresh round of talks on the denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, on Dec. 11, 2008. Seoul will soon convene a meeting to settle the issue of sending the remainder of the promised fuel aid to the DPRK, he said.
Negotiators from China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the United States, Russia, South Korea and Japan wrapped up a new round of six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula on Thursday in Beijing.
Source:Xinhua
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