North Koreans hold nuclear talks with US in Geneva

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

GENEVA (AFP) — North Korean and US negotiators held talks here Thursday aimed at breaking a deadlock on Pyongyang's nuclear programme, with Washington insisting on full disclosure from the Stalinist state.

North Korean envoy Kim Kye-Gwan and his US counterpart Christopher Hill met in Geneva in a new push for a comprehensive declaration from Pyongyang on all its nuclear programmes and its alleged nuclear cooperation with Syria.

"I think it is pretty critical to get moving on this now," Hill told journalists before the meeting.

"We are already some 10 weeks behind if we are going to get onto ... what we see as the complete denuclearisation, and we need to get moving," he said.

North Korea last year signed a landmark deal to abandon all its nuclear...