CHINA: U.S. ASSISTANT DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES KELLY COMMENTS ON NUCLEAR CRISIS WITH NORTH KOREA
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CHINA: U.S. ASSISTANT DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES KELLY COMMENTS ON NUCLEAR CRISIS WITH NORTH KOREA
- Title: CHINA: U.S. ASSISTANT DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES KELLY COMMENTS ON NUCLEAR CRISIS WITH NORTH KOREA
- Date: 17th January 2003
- Summary: (W1) BEIJING, CHINA (JANUARY 16, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR CHINA WORLD; MV HOTEL SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SLV/MV U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE, JAMES KELLY, COMING OUT TO HOTEL LOBBY/TALKING TO JOURNALISTS (2 SHOTS) 0.23 3. SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE, JAMES KELLY SAYING "I had very good meetings yesterday with Chinese colleagues. It's my third visit here in three months. I'm looking forward to coming back. It's an excellent chance to exchange views, but we're not about (one) minute solutions to very complicated problems. We're going to have to talk more together and communicate with other people, including North Korea, very, very clearly, so we all agree on the end results, the Korean peninsula needs to be free of nuclear weapons, that's something China, the USA, South Korea, Japan and Russia and the whole international community agrees on. It's going to be a slow process to make sure we achieve this in the right way. So thank you, I will be back before long." 1.24 4. MV KELLY LEAVING LOBBY; MV KELLY GETTING INTO CAR/KELLY IN THE CAR; SLV CAR LEAVING HOTEL (3 SHOTS) 1.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BEIJING, CHINA
- Country: China
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- Story Text: U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of State, James Kelly,
has said that finding a solution to the North Korean issue
will be a "slow process", but that the international
community, including China and Russia, agree that the
peninsula must be free of nuclear weapons.
Kelly was speaking as he left Beijing after talks with
Chinese officials on the nuclear crisis.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday (January 16, 2003) before
leaving for Singapore for more consultations on the North
Korean issue, U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of State, James
Kelly, indicated that there was no imminent solution to the
crisis.
Kelly, who arrived in Beijing on Tuesday (January 14),
said his meetings in China had been positive, but that
consultations would continue.
"I had very good meetings yesterday with Chinese
colleagues. It's my third visit here in three months. I'm
looking forward to coming back. It's an excellent chance to
exchange views, but we're not about (one) minute solutions to
very complicated problems," said Kelly.
Kelly said that the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and
Russia all agreed on the need for a non-nuclear peninsula, and
that more talks, with allies and with North Korea - were key
to resolving the standoff.
"We're going to have to talk more together and communicate
with other people, including North Korea, very, very clearly,
so we all agree on the end results, the Korean peninsula needs
to be free of nuclear weapons. That's something China, the
USA, South Korea, Japan and Russia and the whole international
community agrees on. It's going to be a slow process to make
sure we achieve
this in the right way. So thank you, I will be back before
long," said Kelly.
North Korea on Wednesday (January 15) poured cold water on
U.S. offers of aid once suspicions about the communist state's
nuclear intentions were cleared, saying Washington was trying
to trick Pyongyang into disarming.
Washington accuses Pyongyang of covertly developing
nuclear weapons, a charge the Foreign Ministry spokesman again
denied on Wednesday. The crisis came to a head on Saturday
when North Korea pulled out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT).
Last week, Pyongyang threatened to resume missile tests
and vowed to destroy the United States in "a sea of fire."
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