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01-07-2003, 08:54 AM
By Stephen Dewey
GOPUSA News
January 7, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- The White House continued on Monday to refuse to negotiate with North Korea over its noncompliance with nuclear nonproliferation treaties.
"[T]he United States has made it clear that North Korea knows what it needs to do, and it needs to come back into international compliance, as the IAEA has urged them to do today in the strongest of terms," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.
South Korea has been recently trying to get the United States to sit down with North Korea in exchange for North Korea's backing away from its nuclear programs. South Korea also wants to secure a nonaggression agreement from the United States vis-a-vis North Korea. The United States' position is that North Korea cannot be trusted at talks, and that a nonaggression agreement is unnecessary because President Bush has already stated that the U.S. will not attack North Korea.
Full Story (http://gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0107_north_korea.sht ml)
GOPUSA News
January 7, 2003
WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- The White House continued on Monday to refuse to negotiate with North Korea over its noncompliance with nuclear nonproliferation treaties.
"[T]he United States has made it clear that North Korea knows what it needs to do, and it needs to come back into international compliance, as the IAEA has urged them to do today in the strongest of terms," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.
South Korea has been recently trying to get the United States to sit down with North Korea in exchange for North Korea's backing away from its nuclear programs. South Korea also wants to secure a nonaggression agreement from the United States vis-a-vis North Korea. The United States' position is that North Korea cannot be trusted at talks, and that a nonaggression agreement is unnecessary because President Bush has already stated that the U.S. will not attack North Korea.
Full Story (http://gopusa.com/news/2003/january/0107_north_korea.sht ml)