US Still Committed to Non-nuclear Korean Peninsula: Powell

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US Still Committed to Non-nuclear Korean Peninsula: Powell

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US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that the US is still committed to a non-nuclear Korean peninsula and a multinational dialogue on the nuclear issue of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Testifying before a US senate subcommittee, Powell said, "The position of the United States is we don't want to see nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula."

"We're working with all of our friends in the region to see that North Korea does not become nuclearized or even more nuclearized than it may be because our intelligence suggests it may have one or two nuclear weapons," Powell said.

He said the Bush administration was interested in talks with the DPRK, but such talks should not be exclusive.

"We want to talk in a multilateral forum," Powell said, "why do we want to do that? Because it is not just a problem between the United States and the DPRK. That's the way that want to see it. It's a problem with the DPRK and the international community."

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