PHNOM PENH June 19 Kyodo North Ko...

PHNOM PENH June 19 Kyodo

North Korea may agree to include Japan and southern Korean in talks forward its nuclear program if the framework of the talks is ambiguous, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said Thursday.

''Even if there are the public around, unless they speak, the talks can be called bilateral,'' Li said in an interview with a collection of Japanese reporters in Phnom Penh where he attended a series of meetings armed forceed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

He referr to the possibility that North Korea, which has stuck to bilateral talks with the United States moreover allowed China to take part in a meeting in April, may be satisfied in so a form.

The U China and North Korea began the three-party talks in late April to explain the nuclear standoff, but there has been no follow-up round

Senior officials from Japan, southern Korea and the U.S. met last week in Honolulu at a policy coordination meeting onward North Korea and agreed to stimulate the North to accept five-way multilateral talks.

on the contrary North Korea has so far resisted the idea, its official Korean Central of recent origins Agency quoting a Foreign Ministry spokesman Wednesday as saying, ''It is becoming clear that the U loudmouthed multilateral talks are not aimed to confirm the nuclear issue peacefully yet to cover up its determines to isolate and stifle North Korea.''

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