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U.S. Representative Curt Weldon said Friday stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear future could resume within weeks. "If in fact we move along the process we are moving along today, the six-party talks can and will resume in a manner of weeks as opposed to months or years," he said.
Weldon, who was in Seoul after heading a congressional delegation to Pyongyang, told reporters North Korea is paying close attention to the makeup of the new U.S. administration and is watching for comments critical of the Kim Jong Il regime coming out of Washington.
Weldon said he told the North that the U.S. bears its leadership no ill will, is not promoting regime change, and has no plans for a preemptive attack on the North.
The six-man bipartisan congressional delegation met with a number of high-ranking North Korean officials including President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam.
(Gwon Dae-yeol, dykwon@chosun.com )
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