| DPRK to abandon nuke plans with conditions(Xinhua)
 Updated: 2004-06-23 16:32
 
  The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) would give up 
all its nuclear programs once the United States abandoned its hostile policies 
toward the DPRK, said Kim Kye-gwan, DPRK deputy foreign minister and head of 
the DPRK delegation, at the opening ceremony of the third round of six-party 
talks Wednesday afternoon in Beijing.  
 
 
 
 |  Chinese Vice 
 Foreign Minister Wang Yi, (3rd from L), leads the way to a meeting room 
 for chief delegates to the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear 
 issue at Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on June 23, 2004. From left 
 are US Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, South Korean Deputy 
 Foreign Minister Lee Soo-hyuck, Wang Yi, North Korean Deputy Foreign 
 Minister Kim Kye Guan, Japanese Chief Delegate Mitoji Yabunaka, and 
 Russian Ambassador at Large Alexander Alexeyev. 
 [Reuters]
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ROK: determined to solve nuke 
issue 
 Lee Soo-Hyuck, head of the Republic of Korea 
delegation for the third round of the six-party talks, said here Wednesday at 
the opening ceremony of the talks that the ROK side was in a determined mind to 
fulfill the task of solving the Korean nuclear issue, calling for the concerned 
parties to eliminate distrust and narrow the difference and make progress in 
building a nuclear-weapon-free Korean peninsula.
 Japan: expects substantial, comprehensive 
discussions 
 Japan expects substantial and 
comprehensive discussions in the third round of six-party talks, said the 
Japanese delegation head Mitoji Yabunaka here Wednesday at the opening ceremony 
of the six-party talks.
 Russia: Nuke-weapon-free process must proceed within intl law 
framework 
 The nuclear-weapon-free process must proceed within 
the international law framework, Alexander Alexeyev, Russian delegation head 
said here Wednesday.
 Alexander Alexeyev, also special envoy of Russian Foreign Ministry, made the 
remarks at the opening ceremony of the third round of six-party talks on the 
Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. Enditem 
 China: 2 topics to be discussed in 
talks 
 Chinese delegation head to the six-party talks 
and Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing Wednesday that two major 
topics, how to realize a nuclear weapon-free KoreanPeninsula and how to make the 
first step toward the nuclear weapon-free goal, will be discussed in the third 
round of six-party talks.
 Wang made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the new round of talks 
started Wednesday afternoon in Beijing. 
 
 
  
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