This is CBS High on the World. I'm Jobbattel with Gordon Chang at Gordon G Chang.

The Trilateral Summit in South Korea bringing together the Prime Minister of Japan,

the President of South Korea, and a member of the government of China to discuss regional issues, including of course

North Korea and its nuclear weapons threat. We welcome David Maxwell, who is Vice President of the Center for Asia-Pacific

Security Strategy, and we're looking at a statement from the Trilateral meeting about nuclear weapons.

It's in diplomatic language.

We reiterated positions on regional peace and stability

denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the

abductions issue respectively. We agree to continue to make positive efforts for

the political settlement of the Korean Peninsula issue.

David, a very good day to you.

Can you translate that especially the mention of nuclearization?

Good evening to you.

Yes, good evening.

I think that, you know, some people were surprised. Most of us didn't think there

would be a mention of denuclearization that China would avoid that. But as you know, China

has the three nose policy toward the Korean Peninsula.

No war, no instability and regime collapse, and no nuclear weapons.

So it is in keeping with their policy.

But as we've seen the growing positive relationship between China, North Korea, and Russia,

many of us expected that there would be nothing, no statement about denuclearization.

That said, it is a pretty limited statement, denuclearization of the

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