China-US split on North Korea resolved
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-01 10:54

VIENNA, Austria - China and the United States appear to have patched up differences at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency over the importance of a light-water nuclear reactor promised North Korea in exchange for pledging to scrap its nuclear arms, diplomats said Friday.

US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Gregory Schulte. [AFP]

The two nations found compromise language on a resolution, meaning the text will likely be presented later in the day to the 139-nation IAEA General Conference, they told The Associated Press, papering over the reflection of a split on how to deal with North Korea.

Any resolution has only symbolic value, because the meeting has no enforcing powers.

But the dispute was significant, because it reflected the disagreement between the two nations on how to proceed at a more important level — future talks among North Korea, China, the United States and three other nations meant to build on Pyongyang's commitment to mothball its nuclear weapons and return to the nonproliferation fold.

Confirming differences and outlining Washington's concerns, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday the United State was insisting that any resolution agreed on at in Vienna would "not in any way try to change any understandings or what was agreed to at the six party talks."

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