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North Korea talks suspended for three weeks
US-DPRK disagreement North Korea's chief envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, told reporters the disagreement over "peaceful nuclear activity" was "one of the very important elements that led us to fail to come up with an agreement." The United States must change its position on requiring his country to abandon all its nuclear programs, according to Kim, adding that it's the key to the success of the next-stage six-party talks, Xinhua said. He ascribed the failure to issue a common document mainly to the "major differences" between the DPRK and the United States on the definition of denuclearization. The DPRK does not want to give up its right to use nuclear power peacefully while the U.S. "attempted to keep the DPRK from the right," he said. Kim insisted the United States remove its "nuclear threat" from the Korean peninsula, which has prompted the DPRK to develop nuclear weapons. "We had to produce nuclear weapons because the United States is threatening us with nuclear weapons," he said. Some 32,500 U.S. troops are based in South Korea, but Washington says no nuclear weapons are deployed there and that it has no intention of invading the North. The chief U.S. envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, made no
immediate comment.
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