Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme have begun in Singapore.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is meeting with North Korea's foreign minister, Pak Ui-chun, at the highest-level meeting between the two nations in four years. Foreign ministers from China, Russia, Japan North Korea rejects olive branch ...
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Japan 'to lift N Korea sanctions' ... and South Korea are also attending the talks. Rice is expected to press Pak Ui-Chun to prove the North's disarmament efforts are serious. Ministers will discuss details of a mechanism to check claims Pyongyang made in a declaration last month about its weapons-grade plutonium stockpile. Following the declaration, the Bush administration launched the process to remove Pyongyang from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
(Deutsche Welle)
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