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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/show-of-unity-over-north-korea.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Hillary Clinton with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, left, and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-show-of-unity-over-north-korea.jpg" alt="Hillary Clinton with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, left, and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan"/></a></p>
<p>The US, Japan and South Korea have said they will not resume nuclear negotiations with North Korea until it ends its &#8220;provocative and belligerent&#8221; behaviour and takes concrete steps to roll back its nuclear arms programme.</p>
<p>&#8220;They need to demonstrate a seriousness of purpose in ending their provocations and let the world know they are now ready to come to the table and fulfil the commitments they have already made,&#8221; US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said after meeting Japanese foreign minister Seiji Maehara and his South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-hwan in Washington.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s meeting was intended to demonstrate a serious response to recent North Korean actions, including its deadly shelling of a South Korean island last month and its announced expansion of a uranium enrichment capability that the US and others see as a defiant and dangerous step.</p>
<p>Conspicuous in their absence, however, were representatives of the two other countries that have worked with the US, Japan and South Korea on the North Korean problem &#8211; China and Russia. Together with North Korea, they are members of what has become known as the six-party talks.</p>
<p>Asked about China&#8217;s absence, Mrs Clinton said the meeting was specifically intended to co-ordinate with US treaty allies &#8211; Japan and South Korea &#8211; rather than convene a larger group.</p>
<p>China, a traditional supporter of North Korea, has called for an emergency session of the so-called six-party talks &#8211; with the US, Japan, South Korea, Russia and China in negotiations with North Korea.</p>
<p>But Mrs Clinton made clear that Washington, Tokyo and Seoul viewed a resumption of talks as tantamount to rewarding North Korea for behaving badly.</p>
<p>In a joint written statement, the three officials condemned North Korea&#8217;s construction of a new uranium enrichment facility, saying it violated United Nations Security Council resolutions as well as the North&#8217;s commitments in a September 2005 agreement with the other parties to the six-party talks.</p>
<p>&#8220;We would like China to have a clearer stance in giving warning to North Korea&#8221; about the consequences of its actions, Mr Kim said.</p>
<p>Mr Kim and Mr Maehara later met Barack Obama&#8217;s national security adviser Tom Donilon at the White House.</p>
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