The chief nuclear negotiators of South Korea and China Thursday met in Beijing to hammer out a joint message to North Korea, urging Pyongyang to come clean on all its nuclear programs and activities. North Korea is reportedly refusing to acknowledge its long-suspected uranium enrichment program, creating what Foreign Minister Song Min-soon has called a new “bump” in six-way nuclear disarmament talks that involve the two Koreas, the U.S., Japan, China and Russia. [Yonhap]
Just watch us fold like lawn chairs on this one. I predict that State will try to send a “reduced” amount of aid to North Korea anyway, as the negotiation of North Korea’s “full” disclosure drags into January 2009.
