By Xinhua
Seoul : The US will join Korean peace talks after North Korea “substantially” disables its nuclear facilities, chief US negotiator at the six-party talks said here Friday.
“Our position, which we’ve had for a long time and continue to have, is upon substantial disablement…we would hope that we could begin a peace negotiation process that would conclude and that we could reach a final peace arrangement when North Korea finally abandons its nuclear weapons and nuclear programmes,” Christopher Hill told reporters after meeting his South Korean counterpart Chun Young-woo.
South Korean President Roh had said earlier this month that South Korea, the US and China should hold talks for permanent peace in the Korean peninsula to replace the armistice signed in July 1953.
Hill arrived in Seoul from Beijing late Thursday.