Japan Wants South Korean Aid to Be Sent Once Pyongyang Scraps Nuclear Programme
Posted on: Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 06:00 CDT
Excerpt from report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, 13 July: Japan hopes to confirm with South Korea that the country's recent offer of electric power to North Korea will only be realized after the North scraps its nuclear programme in a verifiable manner, Japan's top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said Wednesday [13 July].
"It should be carried out on the condition of nuclear dismantlement and verification," Chief Cabinet Secretary Hosoda said in a press conference.
"The important thing is that this falls in line with the major theme of the six-party talks that we should avoid nuclear development making progress as a threat to world peace and peace in Asia," he said.
Japan wants to confirm South Korea's plan when Japan, South Korea and the United States hold a meeting of chief delegates to the six- party talks Thursday in Seoul as well as during the multilateral talks to resume later this month, he said. [Passage omitted]
Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
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