Seoul: Time to push for nuclear talks without North Korea

President Park Geun-hye was briefed by foreign, defence and unification ministers about their respective policy directions in 2016, which focused on resolving Pyongyang’s nuclear issue through stronger sanctions and pressure rather than dialogue and consultations, Xinhua reported.

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5-PARTY TALKS? South Korean President Park Geun-hye says 5-way talks excluding North Korea is among the “creative” solutions to the stalled 6-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program.

“When North Korea and Iran seek to purchase high technology materials or equipment for their nuclear and missile programs, the place that they like to shop is China”, he said in a teleconference with reporters in the Asia-Pacific region.

The latest on the detention of an American student in North Korea (all times local): 5:30 p.m. A China-based tour company has confirmed that one if its clients has been detained in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

“The overall bill contains a number of provisions which makes it increasingly problematic for U.S. NGOs to operate inside North Korea”, said Luse, who worked as an aide to former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar.

Park instructed the officials to make all-out diplomatic efforts to make strong and effective sanctions against the DPRK drawn up at the U.N. Security Council as well as bilateral and multilateral sanctions taken in addition to the U.N. resolution. Blinken flies to Beijing later Wednesday for talks on North Korea.

Syring gave no further details on what was North Korea’s fourth nuclear test.

At a later press briefing, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se said excluding North Korea would serve as a powerful signal of the global community’s anger and frustration.

The announcement means the South’s military operations center, the Korea Theater Missile Operation Cell, or KTMO Cell, will be linked to the U.S. TMO-CELL system via Link 16, a military tactical data exchange network already used between the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.