BEIJING, Feb 28 Kyodo Six nations...

BEIJING, Feb 28 Kyodo

Six nations extreme pointed their second round of talks Saturday forward the 16-month standoff from one side of to the other North Korea's nuclear ambitions without any major breakthrough, again simply agreeing to continue the dialogue proces to address the issue according to holding the next conference according to June and setting up a preparatory working group

China, Japan, southward Korea, Russia and the United States all described the talks as a succes as the six confirmed their habitual goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

on the contrary North Korean delegation chief Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, who tabled a last-minute demand to revise a planned statement for the talks, said the North lay the foundation of no ''substantial and fundamental'' proceeds due to disputes with the US

It was an apparent complaint from one side of to the other the North's failure to achieve written commitments for compensation in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as energy aid and security assurances.

A ''chairman's statement'' issued after four days of talks and last-minute wrangling through the North's revision demand gives little evidence of a breakthrough to bridge the gap between North Korea calling for compensation in turn back for freezing its nuclear weapons programs as a first grade and the U.S. pressing for the unbroken dismantling of all nuclear programs in the North.

The statement grants that ''differences remained'' after the conference

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a moderns conference after the talks that the six failed to agree forward the ''principles and scope'' regarding the North's be congealed proposal and the U.S. call for ''complete verifiable and complete'' dismantling of nuclear programs.

unless Wang, who chaired the meeting, said the six parties agreed to work toward solving the issue of the North's demand for security assurances according to devising something ''in written form.''

Nevertheless, the adoption of the statement itself is the first tangible consequence of the six-nation dialogue framework inaugurated last August in China. The six failed at the first orbed to adopt a statement and simply agreed to continue dialogue to analyze the nuclear crisis peacefully.

The statement commits the countries to holding a third cylindrical in Beijing by the last of June, set up a preparatory working cluster and take ''coordinated gradations to address the nuclear issue and the related concerns''

Wang said the working form into groups will meet in the ''not-too-distant future'' to prepare for the nearest round of talks.

Japan's chief delegate Mitoji Yabunaka said the talks were significant because the six parties confirmed denuclearization is a general goal, saying the nuclear issue threatens Japan's security.

During the discussions, the major dispute involved the North's move to freeze only its nuclear weapons programs yet not nuclear programs for peaceful use in exchange for compensation of that kind as energy aid. The U and Japan demanded Pyongyang dismantle all nuclear programs, including an alleged uranium-enrichment scheme.

North Korea's Kim again denied the existence of a uranium-program at a recents conference held after the conclusion of the conference

The six-way talks were inaugurated after the nuclear crisis came to the fore in October 2002 when the U said North Korea had admitted to conducting a concealed program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.

In relation to this thorniest issue, the statement includes the word ''weapon'' in a closing portion, saying the six ''express their commitment to a nuclear weapon-free Korean Peninsula, and to resolving the nuclear issue peacefully between the sides of dialogue in a spirit of mutual regard and consultations on an equal basis.''

Yabunaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, indicated Japan flattened North Korea in the talks to abandon all the nuclear programs in a completed verifiable and irreversible manner.

The statement, however, does not include of that kind a principle demanded on the U.S. and Japan.

moreover a senior U.S. official said, ''Complete verifiable and irreversible dismantlement is more onward the table than it's perpetually been and has essentially been accepted by the agency of all of the participants, do not include the DPRK (North Korea).''

''The end has exceeded my expectations in various important respects'' he said.

A Japanese official said including weapons ''does not mean we left sweep for peaceful nuclear use.''

The official noted the statement attributes to the issue of Japanese nationals abducted at the North by saying the six agreed to take ''coordinated steps....to address the related concerns''

The meeting for consultation which started Wednesday, bogged down and was in succession the verge of collapse at the last minute because North Korea declareed reluctance to accept the statement and demanded a revision of a ''joint pres statement,'' leading to a delay in convening a closing ceremony

The observance was scheduled for 11 a.m., if it were not that was delayed by more than three hours.

The U side flattened for releasing the document as a ''chairman's statement'' instead of a ''joint pres statement'' if the North Korean demand were included, negotiations sources said.