China's Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei (C) listens to a speaker during the opening of another round of the six-party talks at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing February 8, 2007. Six-party negotiations on closing Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme resumed on Thursday with hopes raised for agreement on first steps after milestone talks between the US and North Korean envoys in Berlin last month. [Reuters]

 

Chief US negotiator Christopher Hill listens to a speaker during the opening of another round of the six-party talks at at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing February 8, 2007. Six-party negotiations on closing Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme resumed on Thursday with hopes raised for agreement on first steps after milestone talks between the US and North Korean envoys in Berlin last month.[Reuters]

 

Chief Japanese envoy Kenichiro Sasae attends the opening of another round of the six-party talks at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing February 8, 2007. Six-party negotiations on closing Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme resumed on Thursday with hopes raised for agreement on first steps after milestone talks between the US and North Korean envoys in Berlin last month. [Reuters]

 

Chief US negotiator Christopher Hill (L) attends the opening of another round of the six-party talks at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing February 8, 2007. Six-party negotiations on closing Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme resumed on Thursday with hopes raised for agreement on first steps after milestone talks between the US and North Korean envoys in Berlin last month. [Reuters]

 

China's Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei (L) speaks to Russia's Ambassador to China Sergei Razov (R) during the opening of another round of the six-party talks at the Diaoyutai Guest Statehouse in Beijing February 8, 2007. Six-party negotiations on closing Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme resumed on Thursday with hopes raised for agreement on first steps after milestone talks between the US and North Korean envoys in Berlin last month. [Reuters]

 

A South Korean official smiles during the opening of another round of six-party talks at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing February 8, 2007. Six-party negotiations on closing Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme resumed on Thursday with hopes raised for agreement on first steps after milestone talks between the US and North Korean envoys in Berlin last month. [Reuters]

 

(China Daily February 10, 2007)