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 BEIJING (AP) - North Korea insisted Thursday during six-nation disarmament talks that it retain the right to "peaceful nuclear activities" — a demand the United States opposes because of suspicions the North could use those programs to make weapons.
Delegates vowed to press ahead with the talks, but the Chinese hosts for the first time raised the prospect they could end without an agreement. The talks continue Friday.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan said after 10 days of talks that delegates were "at a stalemate" in work on a statement of principles to guide negotiations aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear programs.
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