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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's top diplomat said Thursday that North Korea's professed desire for a peaceful nuclear program shouldn't become an issue that overshadows disarmament talks.
Meanwhile, a leading North Korea expert said an official there told him the country was researching how to create lightly enriched uranium — which could be used to fuel a reactor for non-weapons use, as opposed to the highly enriched uranium deployed in atomic bombs.
Amid the standoff, the North's foreign minister met Thursday with two visiting U.S. lawmakers who said they would raise the nuclear issue. In a one-sentence dispatch, the North's Korean Central News Agency provided no details of the discussions between Paek Nam Sun and U.S. Reps. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., and James Leach, R-Iowa.
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