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By P. S. Suryanarayana
SINGAPORE, FEB. 19. The Chinese authorities today sent a "senior official" of the governing Communist Party of China (CPC) to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the context of new international efforts to bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table for a diplomatic solution of the latest nuclear row. The official, Wang Jiarui, head of the CPC's International Liaison Department, is widely expected to discuss with his North Korean hosts various issues that have been sparked by Pyongyang's announcements on Feb. 10 that it had in fact "manufactured nukes" to face the American "threats" and decided to stay away from the six-party talks for an "indefinite period." The six parties are the U.S., the DPRK, China as the host, South Korea, Japan and Russia. Top diplomats from the U.S. and South Korea, Christopher Hill and Song Min-soon respectively, met Mr. Wang, among other interlocutors, in Beijing a few days ago. Against this background, Japan said that its Foreign Minister and its top defence official would discuss the DPRK's new nuclear posture during the strategic-security dialogue with their U.S. counterparts in Washington this week-end. Ahead of Mr. Wang's visit to Pyongyang, expected to last three or four days, a top DPRK diplomat said his country would be willing to rejoin parleys on its nuclear weapons programme if the U.S. were to commit itself to "coexistence" with North Korea and promise to refrain from interference in Pyongyang's internal affairs.
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