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US Meets Again With N. Koreans on Nuclear Weapons
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=1569A4A:A6F02AD83191E160034545A2AA8258089574F7DCC14957C0 Pyongyang,
emboldened by nuclear test in October, says it will not get rid of
weapons program unless all sanctions  are lifted U.S. and North Korean
envoys to the six-party talks in Beijing on dismantling the reclusive
communist state's nuclear weapons held another one-on-one meeting
Wednesday after failing to narrow their differences a day earlier.
>From the Chinese capital, Roger Wilkison reports that negotiators from
China, Japan, Russia and South Korea will later join them to discuss
how North Korea can implement a pledge it made more than a year ago to
disarm in exchange for aid and security guarantees.







Christopher Hill (file photo)On the third day of the nuclear talks,
U.S. envoy Christopher Hill says it is not clear where the
negotiations are heading.

North Korea, emboldened by its nuclear test in October, says it will
not get rid of its weapons program unless all sanctions against it are
lifted. It also wants to be recognized as a nuclear power.

Hill said Tuesday that is impossible.

"We've made very clear we're not going to live with their nuclear
weapons. No country is going to accept that North Korea should have
nuclear weapons," he said.

On the sidelines of the talks, financial officials from the United
States and North Korea are meeting for a second day on U.S. banking
sanctions Pyongyang insists must be lifted before it will dismantle
its nuclear program. But the U.S. delegate to those talks says it will
be a long process.


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