North Korean nuclear weapons talks have broken off for three weeks today with no sight of progress over Pyongyang's insistence on having atomic reactors for energy.
The six-nation talks with China, South Korea, Japan and Russia went into the recess still deadlocked over the Stalinist north's nuclear ambitions, despite a fortnight of intense negotiations in the Chinese capital.
'We decided to have a brief recess so delegations can go back to report to their respective governments, further study each other's positions and resolve differences which still exist,' China's chief envoy Wu Dawei said.
