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Those closest to the talks did all they could to downplay the possibility of a rift. "I am not prepared to say that we have made substantial progress," said Ambassador Robert Gallucci, head of the U.S. delegation, but "the talks were serious and businesslike." Both sides strained to say nothing critical of the other's position. "It's one of those moments where we try not to say anything at all," said a U.S. official. Lower-level diplomats continued to meet over the weekend, and Gallucci will resume discussions Wednesday with North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kang...
...most serious backsliding involves the North's willingness to accept special inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency at the two sites suspected of containing waste from past bomb-building efforts. Gallucci thought Kang had firmly committed the North to permit these inspections -- crucial to confirming whether Pyongyang already has obtained plutonium to make bombs -- before any components for the new reactors arrived. But this week Kang insisted the North would never permit special inspections, and would only start talking to the IAEA about its past nuclear program once the new reactors were more than 50% complete. Kang also said...
...ominous new threat, he said Pyongyang wanted to insert new fuel rods into the reactor now, so it can generate more plutonium. While there is no sign the North has actually started refueling, Gallucci told Kang any attempt to do so would end all talks...
...officials softened their ground rules for a nuclear settlement with North Korea when formal talks resume in Geneva two weeks from today. In Washington, chief U.S. negotiator Robert Gallucci dropped a demand that Pyongyang disclose every shred of information about its past nuclear activities so investigators could figure out whether it has stashed away a warhead, or a half-dozen of them. Instead, he said, the U.S. can attack that question after a basic agreement that would have North Korea drop its nuclear weapons program altogether, in exchange for a modern nuclear reactor and relations with...
...will seek a "package deal" that includes full diplomatic ties. The talk may not be so tough, since the Clinton Administration quietly floated the nuke offer weeks ago. Even as relations with the North grew somewhat warmer, the U.S. had to reprimand the South. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gallucci, the chief U.S. negotiator, slammed Seoul for rhetorical attacks on the North and for the wide publicity Seoul gave to a North Korean defector...