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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The State Department confirmed Friday that North Korea has indicated its willingness to return to six-party talks.
The North Koreans conveyed their intention earlier Friday shortly after a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation concluded talks with senior communist officials in Pyongyang.
"We hope that North Korean statements do, indeed, presage a return to the talks," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told a briefing in Washington. But the North Koreans, he said, have not yet conveyed their decision to other parties to the talks.
The United States, he said, has made it very clear that it is ready to go back to the talks but they "must address the full range of North Korea's nuclear programs, including its uranium enrichment program."
The six-party talks, intended to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear program, include the United States, China, Japan and Russia, besides the two Koreas. The three prior rounds, hosted by China since 2003, made no breakthroughs. The last round was held in June.
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