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Six parties begin new round of talks

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Negotiators from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea, Japan, Russia, China and the United States start the sixth round of six-party talks in Beijing, capital of China on March 19, 2007.

BEIJING, March 20 - The six parties to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue talks began a new round of talks in Beijing on Monday with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States resolving the issue of 25 million U.S. dollars frozen in a bank in Macau.

"We are still faced with a lot of difficulties and obstacles on the road ahead," top Chinese negotiator Wu Dawei said in his opening address before the closed-door talks in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.

As the chair of the six-party talks, Wu said the session would review the progress of five related work group meetings and discuss the specific steps for the DPRK to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor¹.

Wu called on all parties to take part in the talks with "a flexible, pragmatic and constructive² approach and make positive contributions".

"The current session will run about three days," Wu said.

Earlier on Monday, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Treasury³ Secretary Daniel Glaser said the United States and DPRK had reached an understanding on the issue of frozen funds.

"The DPRK has proposed the transfer of the 25 million U.S. dollars frozen in the Banco Delta⁴ Asia (BDA) into an account held by DPRK's Foreign Trade Bank at the Bank of China in Beijing," Glaser said.

"We believe this resolves the issue of the DPRK-related frozen funds," he concluded.

In September 2005, the U.S. Treasury Department, suspecting the BDA of helping⁵ the DPRK launder⁶ money, ordered American financial institutions to suspend business ties with the Macao-based bank, which subsequently froze the U.S. dollar accounts held by the DPRK.

Rejecting the charge, the DPRK demanded the U.S. lift the financial sanctions before it could return to the six-party talks, which remained stalled for 13 months since the end of 2005.

As part of the nuclear deal reached during the last round of talks in Beijing on Feb. 13, the United States agreed to settle the financial dispute with the DPRK within 30 days.

"The DPRK will shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon if its funds are fully⁷ released," the top DPRK envoy⁸ Kim Kye-Gwan told the chief envoys⁹' meeting on Monday morning.

"With the BDA issue resolved, there should be no major obstacles to implementing¹¹ the measures to shut down the DPRK's nuclear facilities within the 60-day deadline," said the ROK envoy Chun Yung-woo.

"I think tomorrow the focus will turn to the completion of the tasks within the 60 days," chief U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said at his hotel on Monday evening.

Hill also said that the DPRK needed to do more to address its relationship with Japan.

A Japan-DPRK meeting took place in Hanoi early March without achieving any breakthrough in resolving outstanding issues preventing the two countries from normalizing relations.

Japan's envoy Kenichiro Sasae said in the chief envoys' meeting that Japan would try to implement¹⁰ the initial steps quickly, adding that parties should start thinking about measures in the second stage.

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1 reactor
n.反应器；反应堆
参考例句：
The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。 Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。

2 constructive
adj.建设的，建设性的
参考例句：
We welcome constructive criticism.我们乐意接受有建设性的批评。 He is beginning to deal with his anger in a constructive way.他开始用建设性的方法处理自己的怒气。

3 treasury
n.宝库；国库，金库；文库
参考例句：
The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。 This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

4 delta
n.（流的）角洲
参考例句：
He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。 The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔，形成了一个三角洲。

5 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
参考例句：
The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。 By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

6 launder
v.洗涤；洗黑钱（把来路可疑的钱弄得似乎合法）
参考例句：
She wore a freshly laundered and starched white shirt.她穿一件刚刚浆洗熨烫过的白色衬衣。 The gang launders the steal money through their chain of restaurants.这帮匪徒通过他们的连锁饭店洗赃款。

7 fully
adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地
参考例句：
The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。 They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

8 envoy
n.使节，使者，代表，公使
参考例句：
Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。 The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

9 envoys
使节( envoy的名词复数 )；公使；谈判代表；使节身份
参考例句：
the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动 Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。

10 implement
n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行
参考例句：
Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。 The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

11 implementing
v.实现( implement的现在分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效
参考例句：
-- Implementing a comprehensive drug control strategy. ――实行综合治理的禁毒战略。来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书 He was in no hurry about implementing his unshakable principle. 他并不急于实行他那不可动摇的原则。来自辞典例句

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