TWO leading Republican senators joined Democrats yesterday in calling for direct talks between the US and North Korea aimed at easing a nuclear standoff. Senator Richard Lugar, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, said direct talks, which North Korea has long coveted and which the Bush administration refuses, are “inevitable if this is to be resolved diplomatically”.
Calls for such talks have grown louder following North KoreaÂ’s nuclear test on October 9 and as diplomats worry about a second detonation. The US says it will only have such talks during six-nation negotiations meant to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear programmes. Those talks have been stalled for nearly a year.
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