A U.S. envoy expressed support for China’s proposal to hold informal six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear threat and offered to meet bilaterally with North Korea on the sidelines of those discussions. U.S. envoy Christopher Hill was in Seoul on a tour of regional capitals to coordinate the international response to the North’s test-firing of seven missiles on Wednesday. The tests caused an international outrage but also division over whether North Korea should be punished. Full Story