Senior officials of the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will meet later this week to seek a breakthrough in the stalled six party talks on the Korean Peninsula's nuclear issue, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and the DPRK's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan are to have one-day talks, focusing on the DPRK's delay in declaring details of its nuclear weapons program, on Thursday in Geneva, said the official who asked not to be identified.
"The discussions are within the context of the six-party talks about how to move this process forward," the official said.
Under an agreement reached in October 2007 at the six party talks, the DPRK agreed to disable its key nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex, and to declare all other nuclear programs by the end of the year.
The six parties involved in the talks are the United States, the DPRK, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
The DPRK has denied that it missed the deadline to submit the declaration, saying that because "other participating nations delay the fulfillment of their commitments, the DPRK is compelled to adjust the tempo of the disablement of some nuclear facilities on the principle of 'action for action'."
Source: Xinhua
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