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Article: North Korea plays a waiting game on nuclear talks; The State Department says it had 'working-level' contact with North last week.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 20, 2005
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Byline: Donald Kirk Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
SEOUL -- Talks between senior officials from North and South Korea this week left unanswered an overarching question: whether Pyongyang can be brought into another round of multilateral talks on its nuclear-weapons program, let alone persuaded to give up its nuclear efforts.
Since North Korea asserted officially in February that it possessed nuclear warheads and was building more, a sense of impending crisis has deepened. The North's announcement last week that it is planning to extract weapons-grade plutonium rattled the international community, as have questions over whether it intends ...