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 BEIJING (AP) - The chief U.S. envoy to talks on North Korea's nuclear program said Saturday delegates would start work on a joint statement of principles taking the negotiations into a "new stage," but an agreement this weekend was unlikely.
Work on a statement of "agreed principles" came as six-nation talks stretched into an unprecedented fifth day and after U.S. and North Korean diplomats held four sets of one-on-one meetings this week.
Delegates from all countries at the negotiations — China, Japan, Russia, the two Koreas and the United States — met Saturday morning for 20 minutes, a South Korean official said on condition of anonymity, due to the delicacy of the talks.
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