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Article: Ranks breaking over North Korea; South Korea and China move away from the US negotiating position as six-party talks reconvene Wednesday in Beijing.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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Byline: Robert Marquand and Donald Kirk
BEIJING AND SEOUL -- Since confronting the Kim Jong Il regime with evidence of a secret uranium nuclear program two years ago, the White House has demanded a "complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement" of all nuclear activity in North Korea. Known by the acronym "CVID," and hewed to by the Bush team closely for a year of multiparty talks, the US position requires a full-scale retreat by Pyongyang before it can expect to receive loans, aid, and security guarantees.
Yet Wednesday, as the next round of six-nation talks on Korea's nuclear crisis commences in Beijing, Chinese and South Korean delegates are ...