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N.Korea nuclear talks seen delayed to mid-January SEOUL, Friday (Reuters) Six-country talks to try to halt communist North Korea's nuclear weapons programme - which had been expected this month - are likely to be put off until mid-January, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Friday. Yonhap quoted a senior Seoul official as saying that a December meeting could still not be ruled out, but it looked more likely that the United States, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia would convene a second round of nuclear talks with North Korea next month. "The trend is moving toward opening talks in mid-January," the unnamed official was quoted as saying. The remarks could not immediately be confirmed. U.S., Asian and Russian officials have conducted intensive shuttle diplomacy in the months since Beijing hosted an inconclusive first round of six way talks in August to try and convince North Korea to attend a second round. Yonhap said one sign that prospects for opening talks before the end of the year had dimmed was that South Korea's point-man in the negotiations, Assistant Foreign Minister Lee Soo-hyuck, had postponed plans to fly to Beijing on Friday. |
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