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SEOUL : Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament must resume soon if they are to be revived at all, South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan was quoted as saying Tuesday.
"The six-party talks should be resumed in January or before the Lunar New Year holidays (mid-February) or the end of February," Yu told local journalists, according to Yonhap news agency.
"Otherwise the life of the talks may come to an end."
The talks began in 2003 but the last session was held one year ago.
In April, angry at international censure over its launch of a long-range rocket, North Korea declared the forum "dead". In May it staged its second nuclear test since 2006.
US envoy Stephen Bosworth visited the communist nation this month to try to persuade it to return to the talks with South Korea, the United States, Japan, China and Russia.
Bosworth, who carried a letter from President Barack Obama for North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, said the two sides had a "common understanding" on the need to resume the talks but fixed no date.
- AFP/vm
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