North Korea talks end, wrangling to continue
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Grinding talks to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions will shift to technical wrangling over disarmament steps, envoys said on Friday as they endorsed a broad plan lacking any deadline.
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Efforts to bring North Korea  back to disarmament talks were in tatters on Thursday as  Pyongyang stormed out of a meeting with the South and a senior  U.S. diplomat left the region after a week of shuttle  diplomacy.
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North Korea hinted on Friday at breaking off talks with Japan over the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, saying Pyongyang no longer sees significance in maintaining contact.
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North Korea said on Saturday it will   never return to talks on ending its nuclear weapons programs   under a U.S. crackdown on firms suspected of aiding Pyongyang's   counterfeiting and other illicit activities.
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North Korea is looking for an extended delay in resuming negotiations over its nuclear weapons program and even told China there was no point in continuing the six-sided talks at all, a senior U.S. official says.
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The six-party talks to resolve North Korea's nuclear impasse that involves the two Koreas, the US, Russia, China and Japan are currently on hold.
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BEIJING -- Deadlocked on Sunday over energy aid to North Korea, envoys to six-nation talks on the Pyongyang government's nuclear weapons program gave themselves one more day to reach agreement on first steps toward eliminating the program.
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Envoys to international talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program struggled Friday to find a compromise as differences emerged over a Chinese proposal on how to begin disarmament
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Talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions ended in Beijing on Friday with no deadline to disable the country's atomic facilities.
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While talks between the U.S. and North Korea seem to be progressing, Tokyo and Pyongyang are at an impasse
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Envoys seeking to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions decided to extend talks into Friday as differences emerged on the next steps towards disabling the North's atomic facilities, a Japanese delegate said.
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Top negotiators from the United States and North Korea said on Saturday they had made progress on the first day of talks meant to advance an international effort to end Pyongyang's nuclear program.
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The United States and North Korea held "lengthy and substantive" talks on Tuesday, offering a glimmer of hope that six-party negotiations aimed at dismantling the North's nuclear programs may yield progress.
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Six-country talks on scrapping North Korea's nuclear arms resumed on Monday after a one-year standoff, but hopes for swift progress were dim after Pyongyang presented a "department store" of its own demands.
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Japan and North Korea will resume talks on Thursday aimed at working toward establishing diplomatic relations after discord over Japanese abducted by Pyongyang suspended the first day of discussions.
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Six-country talks on scrapping North Korea's nuclear arms resumed on Monday after a one-year standoff, but hopes for progress were not high after Pyongyang made clear that its priority was ending a U.S. cash squeeze.
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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.