North Korea's envoy to six-party talks Kim Kye-gwan, China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and US envoy Christopher Hill take part in a meeting in Beijing Photo: REUTERSNorth Korea Nuclear Disarmament Talks Collapse
-- The Telegraph
-- The Telegraph
Talks on nuclear disarmament for North Korea collapsed on Thursday night after the reclusive regime of Kim Jong-il rejected a Chinese proposal on how to verify the dismantling of its facilities.
The move by North Korea leaves another unsolved problem for the incoming administration of President-Elect Barack Obama, as well as challenging relations with Mr Kim's most important ally, Beijing.
China was given the task of drawing up a draft document on how to ensure North Korea had kept its promises to dismantle its nuclear weapons programme, in line with a deal struck in February last year.
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