No plans for fresh N.Korea talks

The United States and North Korea have no plans for follow-up talks on resolving a nuclear impasse, a senior US envoy said in Beijing on Saturday after ice-breaking meetings this week in Pyongyang.Stephen Bosworth arrived in China late Friday as part of a lightning tour to brief officials in the countries involved in stalled denuclearisation talks with North Korea about his meeting in Pyongyang.

While reiterating that talks with North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok-Ju and top nuclear envoy Kim Kye-Gwan were "very constructive", Bosworth noted: "We have not talked about the possibility of another bilateral meeting."

Bosworth's three-day visit to the North was the first official contact between Washington and Pyongyang since President Barack Obama took office in January pledging direct diplomacy with US adversaries.The two sides agreed on the need to resume the six-party nuclear disarmament negotiations hosted by China but did not set a date. Bosworth said that issue "remains to be resolved"."That is something that we will be watching and waiting for," he said. - AFP