U.S. urges DPRK to disclose fully nuclear program

WASHINGTON, March 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill reiterated here Wednesday American call for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to disclose fully all its nuclear programs.

Speaking to reporters ahead of his talks with DPRK Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan on Thursday, Hill said Pyongyang must give a "complete and correct" declaration of its atomic activities.

Hill, top U.S. envoy to the six-party talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula, is to have one-day talk with Kim in Geneva on Thursday, focusing on the DPRK's delay in declaring details of its nuclear weapons program, the State Department said.

Under an agreement reached in October 2007 at the six party talks, the DPRK agreed to disable its key nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex, and to declare all other nuclear programs by the end of the year.

The six parties refers to the United States, the DPRK, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.

The DPRK has denied that it had missed the deadline to submit that declaration, saying "other participating nations delay the fulfillment of their commitments, the DPRK is compelled to adjust the tempo of the disablement of some nuclear facilities on the principle of 'action for action'."