N Korea stalls nuclear talks (from ATSNN), page 1

North Korea refuses to talk anymore to talk about the nuclear programme unless the truth about secret nuclear experiments in South Korea is revealed.

The talk between China, the two Koreas, the US, Japan and Russia will have to take place later this month.

news.bbc.co.uk
"[North Korea] clarified its stand that it can never sit at the table to negotiate its nuclear weapon programme unless [the] truth about the secret nuclear experiments in South Korea is fully probed," KCNA quoted a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman on Thursday.

Three previous rounds have made little headway, but analysts still see the multi-party discussions as the best chance of resolving the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.

There has been recent speculation that North Korea wanted to delay further discussions until it knew the outcome of the US presidential election.

The BBC's Charles Scanlon, in Seoul, says that South Korea's disclosure appears to have strengthened the North's position, as it seeks economic and diplomatic compansation for any nuclear concessions.

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There has already been alot of secret experiments.

September 2 when South Korea said it had failed international nuclear accords.

In 2000 when South Korean scientists had produced 0.2g of enriched uranium.

Later it also admitted that a small amount of plutonium - a key ingredient in nuclear bombs - had been extracted in secret research conducted in the early 1980s.

Because of South Korea, North Korea is even more determined not to abandon its own weapons programme.