Three of the other parties -- China, South Korea and Japan -- have advocated a more conciliatory approach to solving the North Korean nuclear issues, and have urged the United States to be more flexible.
The U.S. State Department has said North Korea must provide a complete declaration of its nuclear program to the United States and its partners in talks on the nuclear issue -- Russia, China, Japan and South Korea -- to break the deadlock.
As for the Japan-China-Korea FTA talks, plans were to officially announce a start of negotiations at the November 18-20 East Asian Summit.
The six-party process -- including the nations of North Korea, South Korea, the United States, Russia, China and Japan -- is the diplomatic effort to address North Korea's nuclear program.
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America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan, China and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution and to show the North Korean government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic stagnation and continued hardship.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday wrapped up a four-day tour of Japan, China and South Korea during which he lobbied Asian leaders to support a multi-lateral approach to pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
Every year, we have the ASEAN Summit plus the three East Asian giants -- China, Japan and Korea.
Many Obama administration officials are also skeptical of reopening the so-called six-party talks with North Korea, which also involve China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
Samore and his colleagues believe there are no other options because all other options involve placing responsibility for contending with North Korea on non-Western powers like China, South Korea and Japan.
In late August Keith Nosbusch, chief executive of Rockwell Automation, spent two draining weeks meeting with 147 current and would-be customers in China, Japan, Korea and India.
Diplomacy with North Korea takes place mostly through the six-party talks, which also involve Japan, China, South Korea and Russia.
The U.S. is adamant that North recommit itself to giving up nuclear weapons, as it did in a 2005 agreement arising from the so-called six-party talks: aid-for-disarmament negotiations hosted by China, and also joined by Japan, Russia and South Korea, that have been suspended for four years.
Amid an administration review of North Korea, Clinton also spoke to the foreign ministers of Japan, South Korea, China and Australia -- key allies working to disarm Pyongyang, the spokesman said.
The six-party talks involved China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, North Korea and the United States.
She also boasted this week of an agreement to set up a fund to buy toxic debts from banks in South-East Asia, China, South Korea and Japan.
Meanwhile, China, Japan, South Korea, and other Asian export-driven nations will be nudging the new U.S. President to do what will be his first priority anyway: fix the U.S.economy.
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Children in North America, South Korea, China and Japan attend similar BASF-sponsored programs.
Asia's big exporters, China, Japan and South Korea, are already investing in ice-capable vessels, or planning to do so.
The most aged country in the world right now is Japan, and China and South Korea are the quickest-aging nations.
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The costs for shipping big, manufactured goods from China to the United States -- or high volumes of goods from Japan or Korea or Malaysia, or Indonesia to the United States is a lot cheaper now than it was.
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We have -- a lot of countries such as China, Korea, Japan, many European countries have import tariffs that protect their industries.
The Bush administration has tried this rubric of the six-party talks involving China, South Korea, Russia, Japan and the United States and North Korea.
They were turning to low-cost tool shops in Japan, Korea and China for the dies they use to stamp sheet metal into sculptured steel parts for automobiles.
But they made clear nothing is final unless the whole package is agreed to by the other parties that have been involved in the six-party talks: Russia, South Korea, China and Japan.
The accord was hailed as a success of the six-party talks, in which Japan, Russia, China and South Korea participated.
Besides the member foreign ministers, there were high-level delegations from China, Japan, the United States, Russia, South Korea, France, Spain, Australia and other nations.
The leaders of America, South Korea, Japan and China, preparing to attend an Asia-Pacific summit in Mexico, were due to compare notes on what to do next.
It forms the backdrop to the annual East Asia Summit, held this year in Thailand from April 10th, grouping the ten South-East Asian countries with not just their partners in China, Japan and South Korea but India, Australia and New Zealand as well.
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