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Some progress in USA – North Korea nuclear talks

U.S. nuclear talks with N. Korea produce progress but no breakthrough, Washington Post,   By Chico Harlan,   February 24,  TOKYO — The United States’ nuclear negotiations with North Korea ended Friday with “a little bit of progress” but no breakthrough, said chief U.S. negotiator Glyn Davies, who hinted that a long and slow process will determine Pyongyang’s willingness to swap its weapons program for aid.

“Diplomacy, sometimes, is a process that takes a while to work
through,” Davies said. The two-day session in Beijing, the first
official U.S. contact with the North since the death Kim Jong Il,
provided Washington its first clues about the thinking of hereditary
heir Kim Jong Eun, the young leader whose country has both chronic
food shortages and a stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Following his meeting with longtime North Korean diplomat Kim Kye
Gwan, Davies said that there was “nothing stylistically or
substantively dramatically different” between the policies of the
father and the son. But Davies provided no details about the next
steps, or whether the talks bolstered hopes for a return to
multi-nation denuclearization talks.

Davies will meet with officials in Seoul on Saturday and in Tokyo on
Sunday. The six-party talks — which involve the United States, Japan,
China, Russia and the two Koreas — have been stalled since late 2008.
….   http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/us-nuclear-talks-with-n-korea-produce-progress-but-no-breakthrough/2012/02/24/gIQANSKNXR_story.html

February 25, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | North Korea, politics international