SINGAPORE: THE UNITED STATES, SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN URGE NORTH KOREA TO SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY OF NEW ENGAGEMENT WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Record ID: 337027

  • Title: SINGAPORE: THE UNITED STATES, SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN URGE NORTH KOREA TO SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY OF NEW ENGAGEMENT WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
  • Date: 27th July 1999
  • Summary: SINGAPORE (JULY 27, 1999) (REUTERS - ACESS ALL) 1. SV OF US SECY ALBRIGHT MEETING WITH JAPAN FOREIGN MINISTER KOMURA (RIGHT) AND KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER HONG SOON YOUNG (LEFT) 0.11 2. MCU/SV THREE WALK AWAY 0.21 3. SV JOURNALISTS AT PRESS CONFERENCE 0.24 4. LV OF PRESS CONFERENCE WITH KOMURA (LEFT), ALBRIGHT (MIDDLE) HONG SOON YOUNG 0
  • Embargoed: 11th August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: SINGAPORE
  • Country: Singapore
  • Reuters ID: LVADPIX35ROG0B7JSTL9YHJBUBYK
  • Story Text: The United States, South Korea and Japan urged North
    Korea on Tuesday to seize the opportunity of new engagement
    with the international community or suffer "serious
    consequences" if it conducts another long-range missile test.

    The joint statement by the U.S., South Korean and Japanese
    foreign ministers was an effort to intensify pressure on
    Pyongyang's Stalinist regime as worries grow it is readying a
    missile launch.

    By agreeing to a package of incentives put forward by
    the United States with South Korean and Japanese concurrence,
    North Korea would reap significant benefits for its people,
    but "another long-range missile launch...would have serious
    consequences," U.S.Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said
    at a news conference.

    "Pyongyang should seize the opportunity and reply
    favourably," to proposals developed by former U.S.Defence
    Secretary William Perry, said South Korean Foreign Minister
    Hong Soon-Young.

    "But in case of a missile firing there should be
    penalties," he added.

    Perry's proposals, set forth on a recent trip to
    Pyongyang, offer North Korea economic and political benefits
    only if the regime agrees to abandon its nuclear and missile
    programmes and move to reduce tensions on the Korean
    peninsula.


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