Chief of Russian Intelligence meets with Kim Jong-il
Hot Topic: North Korean nuclear problem
Mikhail Fradkov
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18/05/2011 10:43
Moscow, May 18, RIA Novosti .
A Russian delegation headed by Mikhail Fradkov, Head of the Intelligence Service (SVR), held talks in Pyongyang with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, reported the Central News Agency of North Korea.
The meeting brought together diplomats from the Russian embassy in Pyongyang, his colleagues in the North Korean Foreign Ministry and officials of the Workers' Party of Korea.
During the meeting, the head of the Russian delegation took delivery of gifts in remembrance of Kim Jong-il, his youngest son Kim Jong-un and the deputy head of the Military Commission Central Korean present.
Once negotiations are completed, the DPRK offered to the Russian guests a dinner took place in a friendly environment.
Russia, along with the two Koreas, China, USA and Japan, is a participant in the negotiating process for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. These six-party talks still stuck on today but said the North Korean press in mid-March that, if resumed, Pyongyang would be willing to discuss without preconditions the future of its nuclear program. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the announcement as "Positive signal."
North Korea declared nuclear power in 2005 and carried out nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, earning him sanctions by the Security Council UN requires Pyongyang to cease such trials, no effect ballistic missile launches, to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and resume negotiations on denuclearization.
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