It will promote the six party talks and will continue to play its proper role.

As of today, the Six Party Talks is the principal framework to open up the future of the North.

The country participates in the Quartet on the Middle East and the Six party talks with North Korea.

Koreans have already shown their penchant for multi lateral diplomacy and trouble shooting through the six party talks.

There is still a long way to go for the six party talks and many difficulties still lie ahead.

Both leaders urged a resumption of the six party talks on denuclearization, which have been suspended since 2009.

And, even if new sanctions are imposed, the door to the Six Party Talks must be left open for Kim Jong il.

The Six Party Talks have, at long last, succeeded thanks, apparently, to China s solid opposition to the nuclearization of northeast Asia.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the other States concerned must make every effort to resume the six party talks to resolve the crisis.

Korean peninsula statement on the resumption of the six party talks issued on 13 July 2005 by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union

The European Union welcomes the announcement that the six party talks are to resume in the week beginning 25 July.

The EU has supported the six party talks throughout and remains ready to assist in whatever way we can.

It is China that has the most direct contact with North Korea, and that could best catalyze resumption of the six party talks.

Canada welcomes the agreement reached at the six party talks towards resolving nuclear proliferation concerns on the Korean peninsula.

Japan welcomes the fact that, at the fourth round of the six party talks, an agreement was reached on a joint statement indicating the final goal to be achieved by the talks.

Kim s main target was surely the six party talks between his regime and the United States, United Nations, China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan.

Indeed, in withdrawing from the six party talks, North Korea did not completely abandon the possibility of resolving the nuclear standoff through dialogue.

But their relationship is about to change, thanks in part to the patterns of official cooperation that the six party talks created.

It is simply not enough for China to call, as its official statement does, for the resumption of the Six Party Talks with South Korea, China, the US, Japan, and Russia.

Negotiation is necessary, and it must be sufficient, but progress will be impossible if North Korea is allowed to turn its mere participation in the six party talks into a bargaining chip.

Such efforts should be renewed as soon as possible the US should agree to bilateral as well as six party talks with the North, possibly in exchange for a moratorium on nuclear tests.

I have the honour to draw your attention to the statement on the resumption of the six party talks issued on 13 July 2005 (see annex).

Beyond the six party talks, it is necessary to create a framework from which a cooperative dialogue between the US and China might emerge.

While the six party process has fallen well short of ending the threat, it has virtually eliminated efforts to blame the US as the culprit.

Japan is committed to a peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue through the six party talks and strongly hopes that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will accept the prompt and verifiable dismantlement of all its nuclear weapons and nuclear programmes at the current round of talks in Beijing.

It seizes every opportunity that comes its way, including the Six Party Talks on North Korea s nuclear ambitions, to emphasize its centrality to the settlement of any and all Asian issues.

I am pleased, however, that after a long period of intensive diplomatic efforts to revitalize the Beijing process, the Governments concerned demonstrated flexibility and goodwill and agreed to resume the six party talks.

So, in accordance with the Six Party Talks (North and South Korea, the United States, Russia, China, and Japan) my government wants to create a Korean Economic Community in collaboration with the North.

Rather than debate with her counterparts, Clinton needs to ensure that other countries in the six party framework, especially China and South Korea, are on the same page as the US.

Obama will also need to pursue negotiations to persuade North Korea to return to the Six Party talks with the objective of eventually giving up its nuclear weapons (as South Africa once did).

America didn t budge on bilateral negotiations, and its response to North Korea s recent announcement that it possesses nuclear weapons likewise emphasized the need to revive the six party talks.

The second misperception is that Chinese President Hu Jintao offered Kim a big package of aid in exchange for returning to the Six Party Talks on North Korea s nuclear program.

Similarly, the Six Party Talks on the denuclearization of North Korea, though producing no significant results so far, remain the only useful mechanism for addressing the problem collectively.

This can include the development of the East Asian Summit, revival of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the evolution of the current six party talks on North Korea into a permanent Northeast Asia Security Dialogue.

5. Calls for a peaceful solution of the nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula through successful implementation of the Joint Statement, and the initial and second phase actions to implement it, agreed upon in the framework of the Six Party Talks

Thus, whereas North Korea s announcement of its nuclear capability strongly condemned Japan and the US, it did not mention China, Russia, and South Korea, which had been more conciliatory during the six party talks.

From that moment, all optimism was lost, until contacts were subsequently reinitiated in a complex six party format (China, Russia, the US, Japan, and the two Koreas) that continued, with ups and downs, until the end of 2007.

On the Korean Peninsula, all the agreements of the six party talks must be implemented, and Iran must comply with Security Council resolutions and cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

America didn t budge on bilateral negotiations, and its response to North Korea s recent announcement that it possesses nuclear weapons likewise emphasized the need to revive the six party talks. Japan adopted a similar stance.

Even in the face of strong evidence of North Korean wrongdoing, the Chinese are inclined to view the incident in the context of inter Korean relations, and do not want to let it determine the fate of the Six Party Talks.

On the eve of the start of the six party talks aimed at disarming North Korea, many opinion surveys in South Korea showed a substantial percentage of the public there blaming the US for the North Korean nuclear threat.

The same goes for Japan, whose stance on the abduction of its citizens by North Korean agents in the 1970 s and 1980 s was also cited by the Kim regime last June as a reason for walking out of the six party talks.

North Korea looked at every offer on the table during the six party talks that began in 2003 a peace treaty, economic and energy assistance, and membership in a regional association and walked away.

Again, as outlined in our general statement, the Union welcomes the joint statement by the participants in the six party talks on 19 September and recognizes the hard work, flexibility and cooperation shown by participants.

Koreans have already shown their penchant for multi lateral diplomacy and trouble shooting through the six party talks. Now, they, and Asians at large, need to bring both their skills and their success to bear on the most pressing global issues of the day.