Trouble In North Korea
April 14, 2009
International talks with North Korea seem to be drawing to an end with no result in them abandoning their nuclear programme. North Korean leaders are now looking to restore their disabled nuclear reactor; this comes after the international community came down hard on the country when they launched a missile recently.
North Korea says that the launch was a peaceful space programme test, attempting to put a satellite into orbit. Russia and China have asked North Korea to return to the negotiations following their walk out.
Pyongyang’s closest ally, China, asked for “calm and restraint” from all sides.
A Beijing Foreign Ministry statement said:
“all sides will… continue to advance and push forward the six-party talks and the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”.
The six-party, who encompasses North and South Korea, Japan, Russia, China and the US began 6 years ago and has already seen many setbacks since then. North Korea have deemed the UN action as an “unbearable insult” and that they would “strengthen its nuclear deterrent for its defence by all means”.
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