SHANGHAI —

The foreign ministers of Japan, China and South Korea on Monday urged North Korea to return swiftly to the six-party denuclearization talks as a way of addressing its nuclear ambitions, while vowing to promote regional economic cooperation with the concept of an ‘‘East Asian community.’‘
   
The ministers also agreed at a meeting in Shanghai to work to ensure the success of a key U.N. climate change conference in December in Copenhagen, where the world is expected to try to clinch a deal on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said. The talks involving Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yu Myung Hwan came as regional powers are stepping up diplomatic drives to bring North Korea back to the stalled six-party talks on its denuclearization.
   

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  ratpack at 10:19 AM JST - 29th September

  I think i have read this book before. Isn't this the one where they return to the talks after agreeing on taking a mountain of aid/food/money from some other country and then 2 months down the track they get up and leave the table ranting and raving to themselves!!!!!!!

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  rajakumar at 09:40 PM JST - 29th September

  Trying to get North korea to not shoot test, the missiles up,is going take decades of work by all foreign parties.

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  smithinjapan at 11:26 PM JST - 29th September

  ratpack: Agreed, it's the same old story... with the exception that instead of simply Japan and S.Korea first demanding, then pleading with NKorea to come back to talk, China is joining in on the pressure. Might yield more effect than NK simply laughing it off.

  Now, getting NK to ACT after going back to the table would be something impressive.

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  jaotsu at 07:55 AM JST - 30th September

  N.Korea is working with Iran to build nuclear weapons for third world countries. If N.Korea and Iran do not have political importance in the world and are not allowed to participate in global markets, then a nuclear weapon will help them rise in importance. Other countries will have to pay attention once they have the bomb.

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