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Six-Party Talks, Beijing, China

The Six-Party Talks resumed in Beijing on February 8, 2007 and are expected to focus on efforts to begin implementation of the commitments contained in the six parties' September 2005 Joint Statement.

Six-Party Talks
Assistant Secretary Hill answers reporters question after meeting with his South Korean counterpart Kim Sook before he leaves for North Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008.  [©AP image]Assistant Secretary Hill (Sept. 30): "Obviously this has been a very difficult period. We have had a number of discussions with our Six-Party partners, including last week in New York when Secretary Rice and Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan discussed this. And we also talked about the fact that we had been in touch with the North Koreans through the New York channel, and the fact that we have decided to move those discussions to Pyongyang." Full Text | More on Travel

  
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Six-Party Talks and Implementation Activities
Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill. July 31, 2008, screen grab.Assistant Secretary Hill's statement before the Senate Committee on Armed Services on the status of our efforts to achieve the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through the Six-Party process as well as our broader vision – as outlined in the September 2005 Joint Statement – of a region where the benefits of human rights protections and economic development.
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