“Diplomatic pressure is the key to settlement of the North Korean issue"
Published: 03 June, 2009, 18:54
South Korean officials dressed in radioactive-proof gear inspecting unused fuel rods stacked in a warehouse at North Korea's nuclear complex in Yongbyon. The hardline communist country carried out a second and more powerful nuclear test on May 25, 2009 as well as test-firing three short-range missiles, defying international pressure to rein in its atomic programmes after years of six-nation disarmament talks (AFP Photo / South Korean Foreign Ministry)
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Russia and China should impose more diplomatic pressure on the leadership of North Korea so that they abandon their nuclear weapons program, said Jayantha Dhanapala of Pugwash Conferences of Science and World Affairs.
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