BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States and Japan insisted on Sunday that six-party talks on reclusive North Korea's nuclear weapons programme show progress this time round, with a hopeful South Korea saying it expected results.
North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, said it agreed to return to the talks after "the U.S. side clarified its official stand to recognise the DPRK as a sovereign state, not to invade it and hold bilateral talks within the framework of the six-party talks".