The United States appears upbeat Thursday about a long awaited nuclear declaration by the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill is expected to travel soon to China and Russia for more consultations over the issue.
"Things are moving ahead," Hill told reporters when asked about when Pyongyang is possibly submit its declaration of its nuclear program.
"I think the logic of it is they submit it to the Chinese, the Chinese make sure rest of us get a copy of it and then we all look at it and we don't need any six party meeting (to discuss the declaration)," Hill said.
Also on Thursday, a diplomatic source, who asked not to be identified, said that Hill is to have talks with his DPRK counterpart Kim Kye-gwan in Beijing, China, next week to discuss efforts to get Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programs.
The DPRK delivered on May 8 the United States more than 18,000 pages of its sensitive nuclear records, and the six-party talks on the nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula was reportedly to be resumed before June 15 after an eight-month suspension.
The DPRK, which detonated an atomic device in October 2006, has agreed to abandon all its nuclear programs in exchange for economic and diplomatic incentives.
Under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in Beijing in February 2007, the DPRK agreed to abandon all nuclear weapons and programs and declare all its nuclear programs and facilities by the end of 2007, in exchange for diplomatic and economic incentives.
The six-party talks, involving the DPRK, the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia, have been going off and on since August 2003.
Source:Xinhua
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