Six-Party Talks Shift to Confirming North Korean Nuclear Claims – Part 1 of 2

As envoys to the Six-Party Talks meet in Beijing to build on recent Instant Forex Profit progress in stabilizing the Korean Peninsula, verifying North Korea’s nuclear claims will top the agenda, says Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill.

“Verification will probably take longer than just a few days. It will be weeks, and maybe months,” Hill told reporters in Beijing July 8.

China, which chairs the Six-Party process, announced earlier in the day that representatives from Japan, the two Koreas, Russia and the United States would meet July 10 — the first full meeting of the group since late 2007.

“I think it’s an important week because we really are shifting back toward the Six-Party format” after several months of one-on-one and small group consultations in Washington and across the region, Hill said.

Under phase two of an October 2007 agreement, North Korea began disabling its nuclear program in Fellow Traders exchange for humanitarian aid and security guarantees. The meeting follows two major steps forward for the process: Pyongyang’s June 26 report detailing its past nuclear activity, and the demolition of the main cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, where it claimed to have produced 37 kilograms of plutonium for its nuclear weapons, such as the device it tested in October 2006.

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