DPRK has no plans 'at present' for nuclear test_美文

DPRK has no plans 'at present' for nuclear test

Following the launch, which drew condemnation from the UN Security Council, the United States said it had canceled a food aid deal with the DPRK, accusing it of using the satellite launch as a cover for a long-range ballistic missile test.

Some experts, government officials and media reports have said the DPRK appears to be ready to conduct a third nuclear test and is only waiting for a political decision.

On May 19, a declaration made by the Group of Eight summit in the United States urged Pyongyang to abandon all nuclear and ballistic missile programs in a "complete, verifiable and irreversible manner" after its failed launch of the satellite in April.

Responding to the declaration, the DPRK said on May 22 that it had no plans to conduct nuclear tests alongside its peaceful satellite development program.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states have agreed that dialogue and consultations are the only proper choices for settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, President Hu Jintao recently said in a written interview ahead of the 12th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of the SCO.

The SCO hopes to promote the denuclearization process on the Korean Peninsula through the Six-Party Talks, so as to safeguard peace and stability on the peninsula and in Northeast Asia, Hu said.

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Emily Cheng is an editor at China Daily. She was born in Sydney, Australia and graduated from the University of Sydney with a degree in Media, English Literature and Politics. She has worked in the media industry since starting university and this is the third time she has settled abroad - she interned with a magazine in Hong Kong 2007 and studied at the University of Leeds in 2009.