The US signalled it would not budge from its hardline approach towards North Korea, despite its allies’ increasing pleas for more “flexibility”, saying that doing so would send the wrong message to Pyongyang.As the impasse over disarming North Korea’s nuclear programmes drags on, Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state, nevertheless suggested the next round of six-party talks, which were supposed to be held in September, could take place in the next two months. “Our whole emphasis is to get talks started again, maybe sometime in December or certainly in January,” Mr Armitage said during a visit to Toyko. “But the answer to [this] question doesn’t lie in Washington, it lies in Pyongyang.”Full Story
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