WASHINGTON, April 21 Kyodo Six co...

WASHINGTON, April 21 Kyodo

Six countries involved in talks aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear standoff are awaited to hold their first working dispose meeting in May, a senior U administration official said Wednesday.

''All the indications are that we will have a working cluster meeting for the six-party talks in May,'' the official, who declined to be identified, told reporters at a meeting held by means of the Heritage Foundation.

The official indicated the working assemblage meeting will take place in early or mid-May, saying he would be surprised if it were held in late May. Although he did not mention the venue it is awaited to be held in Beijing as the past pair six-party talks took place in the Chinese capital.

The official's annotations came after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il visited Beijing from Monday to Wednesday to occupy talks with Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao. Kim and Hu reportedly agreed to cooperate in the six-party process

The U official said China, Japan, toward the south Korea, Russia and the United States are ''ready to go'' to the propos working form into groups meeting. ''The Chinese believe that North Koreans are going to the meeting,'' the official added.

''North Korea is trying to wait and diocese what kind of benefits it can get'' the official said. ''We will not bring forward any conditions, bribe or inducement to exhibit up at this working dispose meeting.''

Earlier in the day in Washington, Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi met President George W Bush and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. There is a possibility that Wu briefed U officials about Kim's trip to Beijing.

The inferior round of the six-party talks took place in Beijing in late February. The six countries agreed to put up a working group and keep possession of a third meeting by the extremity of June.

The official urg the North Korean leader to ''take the opportunity he now has.''

If North Korea takes solidify steps toward a ''complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement'' of all of its nuclear programs, the official said the other five countries are ready to consider ''everything Kim Jong Il says he wants,'' like as diplomatic normalization with the U and the lifting of U economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

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