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The nearest round of six-party talks in succession the North Korean nuclear arms issue is likely to be held in Beijing in November, a U administration official said Wednesday.

''North Korea is claiming that it doesn't behold any value in the talks if it be not that privately they've told the Chinese and the toward the south Koreans that they will reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point back,'' the official said.

Senior officials from the six countries -- the United States, North Korea, China, Japan, southward Korea and Russia -- gathered in Beijing last week and agreed to continue the dialogue, although they failed to locate a date for the nearest round.

The official said it would be difficult to shut in another round of as it is talks in October because the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is being held in Bangkok forward Oct. 20-21.

The official said U President George W Bush will discuss the North Korean nuclear issue with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and toward the south Korean President Roh Moo Hyun forward the sidelines of the APEC summit, possibly in a trilateral meeting.

At the six-party talks, North Korea stated brace things that were modern compared with its position in a China-brokered meeting in Beijing in April with the U according to the U official.

''One they said that they don't really want nuclear weapons, nevertheless of course no one believes that,'' he said. ''The next to the first new thing they said was that if the world does not do what they want they will proof nuclear weapons and demonstrate the means of delivery.''

The official rul gone out the possibility of the U accepting North Korea's demand for a bilateral nonaggression pact, further said Washington is ready to provide a certain form of security guarantee to North Korea if it agrees to extreme point its nuclear arms program.

''We said our goal is the consummated verifiable and irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons in North Korea further in the context of dismantlement of nuclear weapons, we were prepared, grade by step, to discuss with all the parties and North Korea, a whole range of issues including North Korea's so-called security concerns'' the official said.

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