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By P. S. Suryanarayana
The one-year suspension, which is to take effect in a week's time, has punctuated the efforts to hold multilateral talks to persuade or pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear-weapons `programme'. These parleys, involving the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, were first held in Beijing last August, and diplomatic efforts are under way to convene the next round by about the middle of next month. The project was launched in the context of the U.S.-DPRK Agreed Framework of 1994. The U.S. is a key member of the KEDO Executive Board, which consists of South Korea, Japan and the European Union. The move has not come as a surprise given the series of developments for over a year now concerning Washington's row with the DPRK over its `violations' of the 1994 Agreed Framework and Pyongyang's disavowal of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and dissociation from the International Atomic Energy. However, it is a possible signal to the DPRK that the U.S. willingness to consider a "security assurance'' for Pyongyang is no sign of a softening of the attitude on the basic nuclear-weapons issue, according to regional diplomatic observers.
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