Word: pyongyang
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...with North Korea "in terms of winners and losers." Nevertheless, for those who insist on keeping score, the clear winner in the latest round of the 15-month nuclear dispute was former President Jimmy Carter. The Administration had kept its distance and whispered its skepticism when Carter went to Pyongyang two weeks ago and claimed that President Kim Il Sung was ready for a negotiated deal. But last Wednesday the North Koreans confirmed in writing that they will freeze their nuclear program while talks are under way. With that news, Clinton had to embrace Carter, at least figuratively. "We have...
...told Carter he would stick to his freeze as long as the U.S. was making "a good-faith effort" to work out a settlement. If last week's letter from Pyongyang contained any more specific time limit, it was not announced. But since the fuel rods are too radioactive to be processed for several weeks anyway, the two sides have a window of opportunity to determine how good the good faith is and to decide whether their resumed diplomacy promises to produce a settlement...
During their three days of photogenic negotiating in Pyongyang, Carter did not get Kim to address the issue that produced the crisis in the first place: North Korea's refusal to let inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency do their job. Even now the Koreans are portraying as a concession their willingness to let two inspectors keep watch on the fuel rods lying in water- filled pools. The battle over full inspections has been swept, along with other economic and diplomatic questions, into the new round of talks...
...Koreas came closer today than ever before holding high-level talks, setting a July 27 date for a summit. The presidents of the two countries are scheduled to come face-to-face in the communist capital, Pyongyang, the first such meeting in the 49 years since the Korean Peninsula was divided. Why should Americans care? A meeting between the two could cool Cold-War tensions and help further defuse a U.S.-North Korea standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program. Already, though, signs are emerging of potential irritation between the two Koreas: the North refuses to discuss a second confab...
...will hold talks with North Korea July 8, in an attempt to resolve the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. The move is a resumption of talks that were called off when the communist government refused U.N. inspectors full access to nuclear facilities. The meetings, to take place in Geneva, appear to be a result of diplomatic manuevering on the part of former President Jimmy Carter, who visited North Korea two weeks ago. Since then, Pyongyang has allowed inspectors back into the facilities...