Chief negotiator to the nuclear talks from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Kye-Gwan met Chinese officials on Thursday to discuss next phase of the six-party talks, according to China's Foreign Ministry.
Kim met with Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei and briefed the Chinese side on just-completed bilateral negotiations between the DPRK and the United States, said the spokeswoman Jiang Yu at a regular press conference.
"The two sides exchanged ideas on the six-party talks, as well as the direction for the next phase of work," Jiang said.
China was consulting with other members of the talks to set a date for the next round, which would focus on the DPRK's full declaration of its nuclear facilities and their disablement,Jiang told reporters.
In a landmark six-party deal brokered in February, the DPRK agreed to dismantle all of its nuclear facilities and programs in exchange for diplomatic concessions and energy and other aid.
Following a DPRK-U.S. meeting in Geneva at the weekend, U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said Sunday that the DPRK had agreed to declare and disable its nuclear facilities by the end of 2007.
The six-party talks, initiated in 2003, involved China, the DPRK, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Russia and Japan.
In a session of the six-party talks held in July, envoys agreed to meet in Beijing in early September to hear working group reports and work out a road map for the implementation of the general consensus reached in July.
Source: Xinhua
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