U.S. sees one hurdle at nuclear talks
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Six-way talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program resumed on Saturday with a dim promise of progress, but envoys remained cautious after many false dawns and at least one stumbling block across their path.
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The United States showed some new flexibility in recent talks with North Korea on the nuclear issue but Pyongyang was unimpressed and is resisting participation in a new round of formal six-party negotiations, U.S. officials and experts said on Friday.
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North Korea was reluctant to accept a United States plan to give up its nuclear program but would probably attend the next round of talks on the impasse, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said after a brief visit to Pyongyang.
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Officials close to talks on North Korea&#39;s nuclear program say it is doubtful a new round of six-way talks to end the North Korean nuclear impasse will occur this month.
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Washington remains committed to multiparty talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons, despite the launch this month of missiles seen as a direct challenge to Washington and its allies, the US pointman on North Korea has said.
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The senior U.S. envoy at stalled North Korean disarmament talks said Friday he would be agreeable to extended one-on-one sessions with North Korean negotiators but doubted that would deter Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
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A historic nuclear energy deal  between India and the United States is hanging in the balance  due to political opposition in New Delhi, but could still be  saved if it reaches the U.S. Congress early next year, analysts  said.
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As the United States and North Korea prepare to discuss normalizing diplomatic relations on Monday, many pitfalls threaten the process, including U.S. promises to discuss lifting sanctions and removing Pyongyang from the U.S. terrorism list.
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The top U.S. negotiator at North Korean nuclear talks said Monday that the North's plutonium-producing reactor could be disabled by the end of the year.
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BEIJING, Feb. 11 -- Deadlocked over energy aid to North Korea, envoys to six-nation denuclearization talks decided Sunday night to give themselves one more day to come up with an agreement on the first steps toward getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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With a controversial nuclear deal with the United States now in limbo, India held out the possibility Tuesday of civilian nuclear cooperation with China.
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Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program could be held in mid-December, the top U.S. negotiator said on Tuesday, but he stressed the need for preparation as he ended talks in China.
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Prospects for an initial agreement on ending North Korea's nuclear arms program were clouded on Sunday as talks entered a fourth day without an accord on how to compensate Pyongyang for moving to disarm.
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North Korea has set tough terms for a freeze of one of its nuclear facilities, demanding that the United States exceed commitments made under a Clinton-era deal that the Bush administration previously derided as inadequate.
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Chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill cautioned on Wednesday that difficult work remained to implement the breakthrough energy-for-arms agreement with North Korea.
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Countries involved in talks on ending   North Korea's nuclear weapons program plan to hold discussions   soon excluding Pyongyang, the chief South Korean and U.S.   envoys to the stalled discussions said on Monday.
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The United States is close to reaching an agreement with Libya for cooperation on a nuclear medicine center but for now has no plans for the kind of broad nuclear energy development Tripoli has suggested, a U.S. official said on Monday.