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US says Beijing six-party talks 'useful'

The six-party talks currently held in Beijing have been useful, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said at a news briefing on Friday.

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The six-party talks currently held in Beijing have been useful, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said at a news briefing on Friday.

"We have found the talks to be useful," Boucher said.

"The talks indeed are going on," Boucher said, and "we think it has been useful to have this series of meetings."

Boucher reiterated the US position concerning the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

"We have made clear the US position is that this needs to be done in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner. It needs to include all aspects of nuclear weapons programs in North Korea," he said.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell declared on Thursday that the six-party talks had been positive.

"The results of the first two days' meeting are positive," Powell said at a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee.

"There is a positive attitude. There is a promising attitude that is emerging from those meetings, and hopefully we can move in the right direction there," Powell said.

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