Russia says N.Korea actions "radically" limit chance of nuclear talks

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04-04-2013 | 00:18
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Russia says N.Korea actions "radically" limit chance of nuclear talks

Russia said on Thursday that North Korea's disregard for U.N. restrictions was unacceptable and that its decision to pursue its nuclear program radically limited the chances to resume stalled six-party nuclear talks.               

"This radically complicates, if it doesn't in practice shut off, the prospects for resuming six-party talks," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told a briefing.
 
This comes after North Korea repeated its threat to shut down Kaesong industrial zone, where 123 South Korean firms operate factories, if the South's government continued to insult it and worsen the situation by mentioning a possible military action against it.          

"The puppet conservative group and its media have refused to drop their confrontational ways and continued to say that we will not dare to do anything about the Kaesong industrial zone ... because it is a 'source of cash'," KCNA quoted the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland as saying.            

"If the South's puppet conservative group and its media continue bad-mouthing... we will be taking the stern measure of pulling out all of our workers from the Kaesong industrial zone."           

More than 50,000 North Koreans are employed there. Pulling them out of the factories would effectively shut down the complex.            


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