DPRK, US resume nuclear talks

NEW YORK / BEIJING - Senior diplomats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States met on Thursday in New York for a two-day "exploratory" talk on Pyongyang's willingness to resume negotiations over its nuclear program.

Stephen Bosworth, the US special envoy to the DPRK, was in discussions with Kim Kye-gwan, the DPRK's vice-foreign minister, at the US Mission to the United Nations.

US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that the talks were exploratory and Washington aimed to gauge Pyongyang's willingness to "take concrete steps" to re-engage in aid-for-disarmament negotiations.