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S Korea, Japan must have role at nuke talks: US

AFP, Seoul
Tight limits imposed by North Korea on nuclear talks emerged as potential obstacles Thursday to a resolution of the six-month-old crisis as key players Japan and South Korea were left without a role.
Senior envoys from China, the United States and North Korea will sit down at the table, bringing negotiators from Washington and its "axis of evil" foe together for the first time since the nuclear showdown erupted in October. A senior US official told AFP that three days of talks would take place between April 23-25.
"We will continue to press for Japanese and South Korea's early inclusion in the talks -- that will be one
of our priorities," said State Department deputy spokesman Philip Reeker.
Analysts questioned how much progress could be achieve without South Korea, Japan and others including Russia at the peace table.
"We don't expect immediate breakthroughs, but we're looking for progress," said Reeker.
South Korea warned that it would not be bound by any results from talks at which it took no part as President Roh Moo-Hyun was forced to defend his endorsement of the three-party dialogue.
"What is important is not the format but the results of the talks," Roh told chief advisors, according to presidential officials.
"Many people are unhappy with the
fact that South Korea is not part of the the talks and think our pride has been hurt," Roh was quoted as saying. "But if we insist on taking part in the talks belatedly, it would only make the matter more complicated."
The format represents a compromise between Pyongyang's demand for one-on-one discussions with Washington, and the US call for a multilateral regional solution.
The United States has been pressing China for months to lean on its purported ally North Korea to bring it to the negotiating table over its twin nuclear programs which sparked the showdown.
Pyongyang signalled Saturday it was open to multilateral talks in a move attributed in part by experts to Chinese
influence and also a reaction to the US-led military triumph against Iraq.
"We're very pleased with the involvement of the Chinese," said Scott McClellan, a White House spokesman.
"The Chinese agree fully with the United States that the Korean peninsula must be free of nuclear weapons."
Another senior official said that South Korea and Japan had agreed the United States should go ahead without them to inject early momentum into the dialogue.
"They urged us to agree to talks with North Korea to get the process of the talks started," the official said.
Reeker added that the early inclusion of South Korea and Japan "will be essential to reach substantive results that we are seeking."