克里：美、中、日在朝去核上意見‘一致’

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States, China, Japan and South Korea are "absolutely united" in their insistence that North Korea denuclearize.

Kerry said Monday after meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Brunei that the only way to ensure peace and stability in the region is for North Korea to live up to its agreement from prior six-party talks to denuclearize.

"That the region will be better with the denuclearization and the possibilities of normal relationships, not just between the south and the north or china and North Korea, but between the United States and North Korea and the rest of the world, lies at the end of engaging in a serious set of steps to denuclearize and serious negotiations that could accompany that."

Kerry also met Monday with the foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea as part of two days of meetings with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Earlier, he urged ASEAN to make progress on a code of conduct covering disputes over the South China Sea.美國國務卿約翰克里說，美國、中國、日本和韓國在堅持朝鮮去核問題上“完全一致”。

克里星期一在文萊會晤中國外交部長王毅之後說，確保該地區和平與穩定的唯一途徑是朝鮮履行先前在六方會談中達成的去核共識。

克里說，“實現去核以及可能實現的關係正常化，會讓這個地區更美好。關係正常化不僅指韓國和朝鮮之間，或者是中國和朝鮮之間，也是指美國和朝鮮以及世界其它國家的關係正常化。要做到這些，最終取決於一套嚴格的去核步驟以及與之相關的嚴肅磋商。”

克里星期一還會見了韓國外長尹炳世與日本外相岸田文雄。克里正在文萊參加爲期兩天的東盟十國會議。

早前他曾敦促東盟在制定涵蓋南中國海爭端的行爲準則上取得進展。