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Bush urges full NKorea nuclear
disclosure after Kim's reply
AFP
Saturday December 15, 2007
US President George W. Bush Friday urged North Korean
leader Kim Jong-Il to fully disclose his country's nuclear programs
after Kim gave a "verbal reply" to an unprecedented
letter from Bush.
"There's a way forward for Kim Jong-Il, and
an important step is a full declaration of programs, materials
that may have been developed to create weapons, as well as the
proliferation activities of the regime," said Bush.
The US president did not specify a timetable, and top US officials
have suggested that a December 31 deadline for a full declaration
may slip into early 2008.
Bush did not comment on North Korea's response to his first direct
communication with Kim, a December 1 letter. The White House confirmed
an earlier announcement that North Korea had provided a "verbal
reply" via diplomats in New York.
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When asked to confirm that the reply was actually from Kim Jong-Il,
Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said: "It was from
him."
Bush added: "I got his attention with a letter, and he can
get my attention by fully disclosing his programs, including any
plutonium he may have processed and converted -- whatever he's
used it for, we just need to know."
"As well, he can get our attention by fully disclosing his
proliferation activities," said Bush, who underlined the
importance of six-party efforts to dismantle the Stalinist regime's
nuclear weapons programs.
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