050312 　「北朝鮮が国際義務を履行しても褒美はやらない！」　米代表が証言

North Korea Could Improve Its Security Without Nuclear Weapons

(U.S. envoy says "door is open" to improve lives of North Koreans)

North Korea, by renouncing its nuclear weapons program, could improve its
own security, improve the lives of its people, and normalize relations
with the United States and other countries of the world, says Joseph E.
DeTrani, the U.S. special envoy for Six-Party Talks.

DeTrani discussed China's role in the Six-Party Talks -- which also
include North and South Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States --
during a daylong hearing held March 10 by the U.S.-China Economic Security
Review Commission.

He emphasized the Bush administration's determination to resolve the
nuclear issue through diplomatic means. "While we are not prepared to
reward the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- North Korea] for
coming back into compliance with its international obligations, we have
laid out the path to a peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue," he said.

China, DeTrani said, has played a constructive role throughout the
Six-Party Talks by creating the conditions for a constructive multilateral
discussion with North Korea.

"We are at a critical juncture in the talks, and it is all the more
imperative that China, as chairman of the talks, use its influence and
leverage to bring the DPRK back to the table and achieve our shared goal
of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula," he said.

The United States has proposed multilateral security assurances to North
Korea, and other partners have indicated a willingness to provide energy
assistance to North Korea if it "permanently and verifiably" dismantles
its nuclear weapons and nuclear programs, he said.

North Korea, however, after participating in three rounds of talks since
2003, has not agreed to return to the table.

Following is a transcript of DeTrani's remarks:

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Remarks by Joseph E. DeTrani
Special Envoy For Six-Party Talks
U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission
March 10, 2005 (as delivered)

Thank you for inviting me to speak on the Six-Party Talks and China's
role as an intermediary in the process.�

I'll summarize where we are today in four points.� First, it is the
clear, consistent and firm policy of the President and the Secretary to
achieve denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through peaceful means,
through the multilateral diplomacy of the Six-Party Talks.� The DPRK's
nuclear programs are a multilateral threat; we seek a multilateral
solution.

Second, we have long believed North Korea has the capability to produce
nuclear weapons.� The DPRK's February 10 Foreign Ministry statement, that
North Korea had "manufactured nuclear weapons," doesn't change our
perception of North Korea's capability, but deepens our concern about the
potential to transfer nuclear materials and technology and underscores the
North's challenge to the global non-proliferation regime.

Third, China has played a constructive role throughout the Six-Party
Talks and we are appreciative of China's efforts to create the conditions
for a constructive multilateral discussion with the DPRK.�

We are at a critical juncture in the Talks, and it is all the more
imperative that China, as Chairman of the Talks, use its influence and
leverage to bring the DPRK back to the table and achieve our shared goal
of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.

Fourth, the DPRK now has an historic opportunity to join the mainstream
of its very prosperous region, to transform positively its relations with
the international community, and to benefit from that transformation in
terms of enhanced trade, aid and investment opportunities.�

But North Korea must meet the concerns of the international community,
and dismantle its nuclear programs, plutonium and uranium, in a manner
that is complete, transparent and verifiable.

The Six-Party Talks, and China's Role

I'll speak in more detail now about the Six-Party process and the role
China has played.�

After a round of trilateral discussions in April 2003 in Beijing, China
hosted the first round of Six-Party Talks in August 2003.� The other five
parties all told North Korea very clearly in plenary session that they
would not accept North Korea's possession of nuclear arms.

We held a second round of Six-Party Talks in February 2004.� The parties
agreed to regularize the talks, and to establish a working group to set
issues up for resolution at the plenary meetings.�

At that second round of talks, the ROK offered fuel aid to the DPRK,
contingent on a comprehensive and verifiable halt of its nuclear programs
as a first step toward complete nuclear dismantlement.� Other non-U.S.
parties subsequently expressed a willingness to do so as well.� Two
sessions of the Working Group, running two-to-three days each, were held
after the second round of talks.

At the third round of talks, in June 2004, the United States tabled a
comprehensive proposal.�� The ROK and DPRK also tabled proposals.� The
United States met directly with all of the parties over the course of the
talks, and held a two-and-a-half-hour discussion with the DPRK
delegation.�

Despite the agreement of all six parties at that time to resume talks by
the end of September 2004, the DPRK has not yet agreed to return to the
table to discuss our or even its own proposal.

Under our June proposal, we and the other parties would be prepared to
take corresponding measures as the DPRK dismantled its nuclear programs
within the framework of the Talks.�

Our proposal provides for multilateral security assurances, and progress
towards a new relationship with North Korea if it commits to and then
follows through on completely dismantling its nuclear weapons and nuclear
programs, including its uranium enrichment program, permanently and
verifiably.�

Other partners in the Six-Party process have indicated a willingness to
provide energy assistance once North Korea commits to dismantlement.

President Bush and Secretary Rice have made clear we have no intention
of invading or attacking North Korea.�

Diplomatic contacts among the six parties are continuing.� You may have
seen that Christopher Hill, U.S. Ambassador to Korea and Representative
for the Six Party Talks, traveled to Beijing for talks with the Chinese
and subsequently, on February 24, held talks in Seoul with China's Vice
Foreign Minister Wu Dawei as well as South Korean and Japanese officials.�
I've spent most of today with PRC Ambassador for Korean Peninsula Affairs
Ning Fukui.�

The visit late last month to Pyongyang of Wang Jiarui, Chairman of the
Chinese Communist Party International Department, and his meeting with Kim
Chong Il, reflected the importance China places on moving the process
forward.� Regarding the press stories earlier this week characterizing
China's position in the Six-Party Talks, the PRC Foreign Ministry
dismissed them, saying the "contents of the reports did not correspond
with facts."��

We met with the North Koreans in New York twice late last year, to
reiterate we remain ready to resume the talks at an early date, without
preconditions, and to ask them to return to the table. �We expressed our
willingness to respond at the table to any questions the DPRK might have,
and indicated we have questions for the DPRK about its proposal.� We
underscored that we are not prepared to negotiate conditions for a return
to the table.

We have also discussed with our North Korean counterparts the example of
Libya, detailing the benefits Libya is now receiving for its transformed
behavior.�

North Korea's Opportunity

Against the backdrop of the Six-Party talks, the DPRK appears to be
trying to undertake some measures in response to its disastrous economic
situation.� The door is open for the DPRK, by addressing the concerns of
the international community, to vastly improve the lives of its people,
enhance its own security, move toward normalizing its relations with the
United States and others, and raise its stature in the world.�

The United States, working with our allies and others, remains committed
to resolving the nuclear issue through peaceful diplomatic means.� While
we are not prepared to reward the DPRK for coming back into compliance
with its international obligations, we have laid out the path to a
peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue.�

What is needed now is a strategic decision by Pyongyang to recognize
that its nuclear programs make it less, not more, secure, and to decide to
eliminate them permanently, thoroughly, and transparently, subject to
effective verification.� We are working together with the other parties to
bring the DPRK to understand that it is in its own self-interest to make
that decision.

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(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
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