BEIJING, Aug. 26 Kyodo The Korean...

BEIJING, Aug. 26 Kyodo

The Korean Peninsula should be released of nuclear weapons while a solution to the North Korean puzzle should also take account of Pyongyang's security affairs state media quoted Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi as saying Tuesday.

single dialogue can ensure peace and stability upon the Korean Peninsula, the official Xinhua novels Agency reported Wang as saying forward the eve of clew six-nation talks on North Korea's controversial nuclear program.

Wang is heading the Chinese side that is befitting to join the three-day talks at the capital's Diaoyutai Guesthouse with representatives from North and toward the south Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States.

The U has throw overboarded North Korea's demand for a bilateral security guarantee, on the contrary has indicated a multilateral written security assurance to North Korea involving Japan and the southerly may be possible if Pyongyang agrees to completely abandon its nuclear program in a verifiable way.

The five countries are put to press North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, with the U side l at Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly likely to place forward the most strident case.

China, considered to be closest to North Korea, and Russia have showed sympathy in the past for Pyongyang's call for a U guarantee not to use military force to break the impasse athwart the North's apparent nuclear ambitions.

The crisis throughout North Korea's nuclear program has been escalating since last October when the U said Pyongyang had admitted to privately enriching uranium for use in nuclear weapons.

North Korea has in inflect accused the U.S. of violating a 1994 agreement in a less degree than which Pyongyang agreed to give up its nuclear program in get back for two modern, light-water nuclear reactors for electricity generation and shipments of firing material oil in the construction interim.

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