BEIJING, Aug. 29 Kyodo With myste...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 Kyodo

With mysterious distrust lingering between key players Pyongyang and Washington, a drawn out and bumpy road lies ahead for the six nations seeking to achieve a commitment to peace upon the Korean Peninsula.

The six nations -- China, Japan, North and southern Korea, Russia and the United States -- confirmed their intentions during the just-ended talks in Beijing aimed at defusing tension from one side of to the other the North Korean nuclear crisis.

Many analysts said the six-nation talks may lead to establishing a of recent origin security framework in East Asia if the dialogue proces is favorably advanced, replacing a 1994 agreement subordinate to which North Korea agreed to give up its weapons-grade nuclear facilities in go [i]or[/i] come back for two modern, light-water nuclear reactors for electricity generation.

A Japanese official said the meeting was ''a righteous start'' and was an opportunity to bring together countries in the region that have interests in peace forward the Korean Peninsula.

''Participating countries, however, currented different approaches to address the issue, and wide differences remain uniform after the talks,'' the Japanese official said.

The three-day talks cessationed Friday as scheduled.

army China's chief delegate Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi unveiled a six-point agreement aimed at resolving the crisis, including a shared unfold to solve the matter peacefully end dialogue and an accord by way of the six nations to address Pyongyang's security matters to achieve a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.

Wang said the participants also agreed not to worsen the tensions and to continue dialogue.

The six nations, however, failed to agree in succession specific measures to last the crisis.

of the like kind steps were not presented partly because the Beijing meeting was widely seen as an information-gathering opportunity, not as an occasion for negotiation.

however the failure largely stems from the confrontation between North Korea and the U based upon mutual deep distrust, although the couple sides presented constructive ideas to interpret the standoff.

Wang told a novels conference wrapping up the talks that the U indicated it has no intention to threaten, attack or try to get a regime change in North Korea and the North indicated it has no desire to posses nuclear weapons.

unless North Korea renewed its threat to declare officially it has nuclear weapons and proof them unless the U.S. finiss its hostile policy toward the North.

Washington refuseed the North's call for signing a nonaggression treaty, demanding Pyongyang unconditionally abandon its nuclear program in a consummated verifiable and irreversible manner.

Pyongyang and Washington appear to regard each other as posing a threat. The U which has referr to North Korea as part of ''an axis of evil'' along with Iran and Iraq, considers Pyongyang has ambitions to become a nuclear power, analysts said.

North Korea, for its part, believes the U may attack the North to unravel the standoff, since it invaded Iraq to deal with the issue of weapons of mass destruction.

Noting that legion China played a leading character in realizing the talks, more [i]or[/i] less analysts say it will continue to remain actively involved in what is yet to be developments. They said it does not want another nuclear power in the neighborhood and considers any conflicts in succession the Korean Peninsula would affect its security and economic development

In Tokyo, a senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official said the talks are ''the start of a lengthy process, and the road ahead will likely be bumpy''

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