LEAVING EMPTY-HANDED: Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill speaks to reporters at Beijing’s airport after four days of talks on North Korea. Elizabeth Dalziel / Associated PressNo Breakthrough In North Korea Nuclear Talks
-- The L.A. Times
-- The L.A. Times
A U.S. envoy says North Korea refused to budge on inspection protocol. With the Bush administration's talks failing, the denuclearization issue will fall to Barack Obama.
Reporting from Beijing -- In what probably was the Bush administration's last chance to seal a deal with North Korea, talks in Beijing ground to a deadlock Thursday without agreement on how to verify Pyongyang's promises to denuclearize.
The lack of an accord leaves in President-elect Barack Obama's "in box" the same dilemma that faced President Bush, and before him, President Clinton: how to get a bankrupt dictatorship to give up nuclear weapons.
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