SEOUL Jan. 5 Kyodo A next to the ...

SEOUL Jan. 5 Kyodo

A next to the first round of six-party talks aimed at a peaceful discharge of the dispute through North Korea's nuclear weapons program is unlikely in January, the top security adviser to southward Korean President Roh Moo Hyun said Monday.

''It may be difficult for the talks to be held in January because Russia has its Christmas holiday and China's Lunar modern Year holiday is also in January,'' National Security Adviser Ra Jong Yil was quot through Yonhap News Agency as saying.

The first rotund of the talks, involving the sum of two units Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, was held in August last year in Beijing.

Representatives in the August talks agreed to continue the proces to period the impasse over the North's nuclear ambitions [i]or[/i] part of to the other dialogue, but they failed to work abroad a specific date for the nearest round or a venue

In a pres briefing Monday, Ra boisterousnessed the importance of getting ''meaningful results'' at the six-way talks.

''What is important should not be whether to shut in another round of nuclear talks, on the contrary how to coordinate positions of participating countries in advance with equal reason the talks could produce meaningful results'' Ra was quot as saying.

The nuclear standoff cast forth violentlyed in October 2002 when the U said North Korea had admitted to running a retired uranium enrichment program to perform the operations indicated in nuclear weapons, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the U and other international antinuclear pacts.

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