Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed gas, electricity and railway projects during talks with North Korea that may lead to concessions on Kim Jong Il’s nuclear weapons program.
North Korea may declare a moratorium on the development of missiles and atomic bombs if there is a return to six-party talks aimed at dismantling the communist nation’s nuclear weapons program, Medvedev’s spokeswoman, Natalia Timakova, said after the two leaders met yesterday.
“I have a very positive impression of the meeting,” Medvedev told reporters following the talks at military base near Ulan-Ude in Siberia. “It was candid, substantive and covered a lot of different ground.”
Medvedev is seeking to boost Russia’s global image as a mediator and to help end a three-year hiatus in the six-party negotiations that include his nation, the U.S., China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea. Kim may need to offer more concessions to get the U.S. and South Korea back to the negotiating table.
“If in fact they are willing to refrain from nuclear testing and missile launches, this would be welcome but it would be insufficient,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters in Washington yesterday. The U.S. will not return to talks until North Korea is ready to meet all of the conditions laid out, she said.
There was no comment from the South Korean government in Seoul while the official Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang said the six-party negotiations “should be resumed without any precondition.”
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