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The U.S. envoy to six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear arms programme said on Sunday it was time to wrap things up and reach a resolution but South Korean and Japanese delegates held out little hope. Envoys to the talks from North and South Korea, the United States, Russia, Japan and host China have agreed on most of a plan that would oblige Pyongyang to shut down nuclear activities in return for economic and security assurances. But North Korea is at odds with the other five countries over a single paragraph of the draft agreement, top U.S. envoy Christopher Hill told reporters as he headed into a fourth day of talks. Full Story