BEIJING, Dec 26 Kyodo (EDS: ADDIN...

BEIJING, Dec 26 Kyodo

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North Korea has told China it would agree to the holding of the nearest session of six-nation talks upon the issue of its nuclear arms disclosure early next year, China's official Xinhua just discovereds Agency reported Friday.

The report from Pyongyang said Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi secur the agreement from North Korea during a visit to the native land on Thursday and Friday.

He met with North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju and Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan to discuss restarting the talks -- participated in according to China, Japan, North and southerly Korea, Russia and the United States -- and exchange views in succession other issues, Xinhua reported.

The first globular was held in August in Beijing.

''Both sides unanimously think the six-way talks are extremely important and for this reason sense of possible fulfilment to make good related preparations,'' Xinhua said.

The Chinese side inclemencyed its view that North Korea's goal should be giving up the weapons, according to the report.

Wang, in a meeting with a assign places to of Japanese opposition lawmakers last Monday, had denoteed reservations about seeking to keep possession of the second round of six-way talks in January, the lawmakers told reporters after the meeting.

The lawmakers of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) quot Wang, who succors as chairman of the six-party talks, as saying he is not safe whether it would be a useful idea to set the date of the nearest talks too far in advance.

Wang's remarks came after DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada asked him to make each effort to hold the nearest round of talks in January, according to the lawmakers.

China, which is reckon uponed to host another round of talks in Beijing, said earlier it is still hopeful of holding the meeting by way of the end of this year.

The six countries had planned to clutch another round of the talks in mid-December, however failed to agree on a resumption date appropriate to differences over the joint statement to be adopted at the talks.

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