The US regarded the sovereignty of North Korea as a fact and it
has no intention to dispatch troops or attack it, Christopher Hill,
head of the US delegation and US assistant secretary of state, said
on Tuesday.??
Noting that the six-party talks are at a crucial moment, Hill
said there may exist many different options to resolve the Korean
Peninsula nuclear issue, but the best choice is to conduct
negotiation through the six-party talks.
Avoiding problems is not a solution, he said at the opening
ceremony of the fourth round of the six-party talks on the Korean
Peninsula nuclear issue.
Hill said the US has always hoped that the six-party talks could
be resumed as early as possible since the third round of the talks
in June last year.
In the past year when the six-party talks were suspended, the US
side had one-on-one contact with North Korea for six times under
the framework of the six-party talks, he said.
During the contacts, the US side had made clear its key stance
and opinions to North Korea, and the US is ready for "serious"
talks under the same framework, he added.
(Xinhua News Agency July 26, 2005)