Former US Envoy Urges Bilateral Talks with DPRK

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Former US Envoy Urges Bilateral Talks with DPRK

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The United States must engage in a bilateral talks with Pyongyang if it is trying to solve the crisis over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear issues, former top US envoy for DPRK said Monday.

In his first public comments since resigning from the Bush administration three weeks ago, Jack Pritchard said the six-party format -- including the United States, DPRK, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan -- was "the right track to take."

But, "the prospects for success unless the format is slightly altered are very grim," Pritchard told an event organized by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.

"We've got to get serious about this rather than the drive-by meetings that occur when we roll down the window, wave at the themand move on," he said.

The change that has to occur is putting in the component of "a true bilateral engagement" between the United States and DPRK, Pritchard noted.

The Bush administration has refused to hold bilateral exchangeswith DPRK, insisting the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear program is not a problem between the United States and the DPRK and so needs a multilateral solution.

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