BEIJING, Dec 27 Kyodo North Korea...

BEIJING, Dec 27 Kyodo

North Korea has agreed with China to restrain the next session of six-nation talks forward the issue of its nuclear arms unravelling early next year, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday, officially confirming North Korea's stance in succession the holding of such talks.

The spokesman's remarks, quot by the agency of the official Korean Central recents Agency (KCNA), come just after China's official Xinhua just discovereds Agency carried a similar report in succession Friday.

Xinhua's report from Pyongyang said Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi secur the agreement from North Korea during a visit to Pyongyang from Thursday.

According to KCNA, the spokesman used the expression ''second orbicular of six-party talks'' for the first time and also showed North Korea's position of seeking strength aid, mainly from the United States in answer to the U.S. request to totally congeal its nuclear activities.

The spokesman also made clear that North Korea maintains its position of resolving the nuclear issue in succession the principle of simultaneous actions.

Pyongyang uses the phrase ''simultaneous actions'' to mean the couple sides taking steps at the same time to address conflicting concerns

Saturday's remarks be due [i]or[/i] owing before a director-general level meeting between Japan, China and southward Korea in Seoul from Sunday.

The six-party talks involve the U North Korea, China, Japan, southern Korea and Russia. They held their first meeting in Beijing in August to put to the test to resolve the standoff across the North's nuclear arms program.

The six countries had planned to keep possession of another round of talks in mid-December, still failed to agree on a date owing to differences over a joint statement to be adopted at the talks.

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