All six parties agree to work for substantive result in nuclear issue talks

Negotiators to the ongoing six-party talks all agreed at the luncheon on Thursday to strive for substantive results, including a joint document, in the talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, an official with the delegation of the Republic of Korea (ROK) said Thursday afternoon in Beijing.

The official said on condition of anonymity that ROK and US delegations had a one-hour meeting that began at 2:30 Thursday afternoon. At the meeting, the US side briefed the ROK side of the one-on-one contact between the US and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Thursday morning.

The US and ROK delegations reached a new consensus at the meeting, the official said at a news briefing.

The DPRK and the US had their three-hour one-on-one meeting on Thursday morning, but neither side has given any details of it.

Earlier media reports quoted the US delegation head as saying that a drafted joint document for the six-party talks would come into being in 24 hours. But the ROK official said that he did not hear about that.

A meeting of delegation heads was previously planned for Thursday morning but was postponed to Friday morning, said the ROK official.

Source: Xinhua