US, North Korea and China hold nuclear talks

Fifty years after Washington forged an armistice with North Korea and China to end the Korean War, the three states were today trying to resolve a new regional crisis amid US claims the North wants to build nuclear arms.

The talks beginning today in Beijing are to be the first meeting between representatives of the three governments since the 1953 armistice that halted the war, in which China fought on North Korea’s side.