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US envoy: Nuke talks still 'in business'
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-16 17:03 No end date has been set for the negotiations. The latest nuclear talks
reconvened following a five-week recess after the last session failed to yield
an agreement during 13 days of meetings.
The United States has said giving a reactor to the North is out of the
question, given the cost and the communist nation's history of deceit over its
pursuit of nuclear technology to build weapons.
The North was promised two such reactors under a 1994 deal that fell apart in
late 2002 after the latest nuclear crisis erupted. Light-water reactors are less
easily diverted for weapons use.
"This is a problem related to the United States' political will to get rid of
its hostile policy toward us and peacefully coexist," Hyun said.
But the North Korean spokesman added his government still hoped to "solve the
nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue."
Hill called the reactor demand a "nonstarter."
North Korea, "not for the first time, has chosen to isolate itself," Hill
said Thursday evening. The country "has a rather sad and long history of making
the wrong decision."
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