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S Korea presses North on multilateral talks

AFP, Seoul
South Korea used inter-Korean high-level talks here Thursday to pressure North Korea to agree to multilateral discussions to resolve the worsening nuclear crisis, officials said.
North Korea's head delegate opened the talks with a warning of the gathering "dark clouds" of nuclear confrontation and said the Stalinist State wanted peace but would not flinch from war.
South Korea stressed the urgency of holding talks in a multilateral format.
"We explained how urgent and useful it would be (for North Korea) to participate in the expanded multilateral talks," Shin Un-Sang, spokesman for the South Korean delegation, said after two-hour morning session.
The North Koreans insisted on one-on-one US-North Korean negotiations, but added that the format would no longer be an obstacle if the United States dropped its "hostile" policy, Shin said.
The nuclear crisis erupted in October last year when the United States disclosed that North Korea admitted to developing nuclear weapons in violation of a 1994 agreement that froze its atomic facilities in return for economic aid and other benefits.
Seoul is seeking to use the cabinet-level talks here to persuade Pyongyang to come to the multilateral talks, proposed by the United
States and backed by its allies, to resolve the nuclear impasse.
During the talks which will end on Saturday, Seoul is also pushing to arrange defense chiefs' talks with Pyongyang in a way to reduce tensions and restore trust.
North Korean chief delegate Kim Ryong-Song said in an arrival statement Wednesday that "dark clouds of nuclear war" were approaching while calling for unity between the two Koreas to overcome the crisis.
"We are prepared for both dialogue and war," Kim said Thursday in his keynote speech to the ministerial talks which will end Saturday. "The basic is to resolve the issue peacefully through dialogue."
But Kim's call for South Korea to support North Korea in resolving the crisis was rebuffed.
"This is not the kind of issue that can be settled by just South and North Korea joining forces, but one requiring cooperation with the international community," said his southern counterpart, Unification Minister Jeong Se-Hyun.
Cabinet level talks between the two Koreas have been taking places since 2000, with the intention of spurring economic cooperation.
Recent meetings have been hampered by the nine-month-old nuclear impasse and tension was unusually high this time after South Korea's intelligence chief testified Wednesday that the North had recently conducted several dozen test explosions.