SEOUL: North Korea has dropped its demand for one-on-one negotiations with the United States and has directly notified key regional players that it is ready to meet them in six-way nuclear crisis talks, South Korean officials said yesterday.
South Korea, Japan, the United States, Russia and China received notifications at the same time from the Stalinist state, whose latest move triggered optimism throughout the region that a breakthrough in the nine-month nuclear standoff was at hand.
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