Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A CSIS Statesmen's Forum with Amb. Chris Hill, Chief of the U.S. Delegation to the Six-Party Talks, was cited by the Washington Post, "Message to U.S. Preceded Nuclear Declaration by North Korea."
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A CSIS Statesmen's Forum with Amb. Chris Hill, Chief of the U.S. Delegation to the Six-Party Talks, was cited by the Washington Post, "Message to U.S. Preceded Nuclear Declaration by North Korea."
Just days before North Korea delivered to China last week its long-awaited declaration on its plutonium-based nuclear programs, Pyongyang privately acknowledged the United States' long-standing concerns about alleged uranium-enrichment activities and possible proliferation to Syria, U.S. and Asian officials said yesterday.
U.S. officials have made only cryptic references to Pyongyang's private message to Washington, in part because it represents a significant scaling back of the administration's goals and ambitions for North Korea's declaration. [...]
"We have to keep working on issues that have still not been fully disclosed, although not denied by the North Koreans," he said yesterday at the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington. But he emphasized that despite the unanswered questions about a uranium-enrichment program, the administration has succeeded in shutting down a dangerous nuclear reactor. Read the article
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