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U.S., China Confident Over N. Korea Talks NewsMax WiresWASHINGTON -- The United States and China expressed confidence that six-nation talks aimed at convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear program would succeed, despite missing a September target for holding a new round of meetings. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and his Chinese counterpart, Li Zhaoxing, said diplomacy should concentrate on bringing the isolate North back to the negotiating table. Story Continues Below ``I think it will work,'' Powell said. ``I think that the six-party framework is what we should be concentrating on, and not any other means of dealing with this right now.'' Li said the ``entire international community'' agrees that the six-nation approach is the best way to deal with the problem. Besides the United States and North Korea, other participants are China, South Korea, Japan and Russia. The United States wants the North to dismantle its nuclear weapons programs and allow outside monitoring. The third round of talks ended in June with no progress toward a settlement but a promise to meet again by the end of September. North Korea said it could not attend the proposed new round because of ``hostile'' U.S. policies and recently disclosed secret experiments by South Korean scientists involving enriched uranium. The Bush administration said the experiments were of an academic nature and were inconsequential. © 2000 The Associated Press
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