Progress slow at nuclear talks
The chief US envoy to talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme said today delegates would start work on a joint statement of principles, taking the negotiations into a “new stage”, but he said progress was slow and there was unlikely to be any agreement this weekend.
Work on a statement of “agreed principles” came as six-nation talks in Beijing stretched into an unprecedented fifth day and after US and North Korean diplomats held four sets of one-on-one meetings this week.
