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N. Korea may discuss covert atomic programme SEOUL, Thursday (Reuters) North Korea might discuss its suspected uranium-based nuclear weapons programme with the United States at six-party talks next week in Beijing, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday. "North Korea has recently expressed its willingness to discuss the highly enriched uranium programme to a third country," Yonhap quoted an unnamed government official as saying. The official said that North Korea had in recent meetings with "third country" officials backed away slightly from its adamant denial that it had a highly enriched uranium programme, although Pyongyang did not acknowledge the HEU scheme. U.S. and South Korean officials have said the six-party talks may hinge on Pyongyang's willingness to address the HEU issue. U.S. officials said this week that if Pyongyang continued to deny the HEU programme, which triggered the current nuclear controversy, the multilateral talks set to begin on February 25 in Beijing could collapse. The talks involve the United States, the two Koreas, Japan, China and Russia. The six met last August in Beijing, but did little more than state their respective positions in the dispute. |
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