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The U.S. has rejected North Korea¡¯s demand for a light-water reactor if Pyongyang is to dismantle its existing nuclear facilities. At a press conference on the recent six-nation nuclear talks held in Beijing, the U.S. chief negotiator Christopher Hill said, ¡°We have explained that the appropriate time is when North Korea gets out of this dirty nuclear business that they've been in and returns¡± to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Hill reiterated his government¡¯s position that the U.S. will discuss provision of a light-water reactor when North Korea returns to NPT and gives up all weapons of mass destruction. His North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-gwan had warmed up the long-standing demand before returning to Pyongyang.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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