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Countries participating in the six-way talks agreed Saturday to hold a working group meeting sometime next month at the earliest to discuss the scope and timing of denuclearization and methods for verification and compensation. They also agreed to recommend those discussions to the North at the fourth round of talks, which they decided to resume by the end of September.
With the adoption of a chairman's statement containing the above, the third round of nuclear talks ended Saturday.
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On the fourth day of the six-nation talks, spokesman of the North Korean delegation Hyun Hak-bong reads a press conference statement before reporters in front of the North Korean Embassy in China, Friday.
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According to the third round's agreement, the six nations will negotiate compensation for the North¡¯s freezing of its nuclear program, but the North still denies it has a highly-enriched uranium program. Assistant Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo-hyuk, chief of the South Korean delegation, said that the talks were of great significance in that the North and the U.S. proposed some concrete measures to solve the problem for the first time.
(Lee Ha-won, may2@chosun.com )
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