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North Korea nuclear talks fail (al-Jazeera)  
  
Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme have ended, without an agreement reached on disarmament or further negotiations.

The negotiations broke up "without concrete result", the Interfax news agency reported on Friday, quoting a source close to the Russian delegation.

Wu Dawei, Chinese envoy, said delegates reaffirmed a September 2005 agreement in which Pyongyang agreed to disarm in exchange for security guarantees and aid.

Wu said there had been "useful discussions" about how to implement the agreement in "candid and in-depth exchanges of views".

China, Japan, Russia, the US and the two Koreas agreed to "reconvene at the earliest opportunity," Wu said.

The talks in Beijing are the first since North Korea tested a nuclear device in October.

Refusal

During five days of meetings in Beijing, negotiators said Pyongyang refused to discuss its nuclear weapons programme and demanded that the US remove financial restrictions it has imposed on the government.

In more than three years of meetings, the North has committed in principle to disarm, but has not taken any decisive steps to curb its nuclear weapons programme. It conducted its first nuclear test on October 9.
 
"There will be opinions questioning the credibility of the six-party talks," Kenichiro Sasae, Japanese envoy, said. He did not say what alternatives existed to multinational dialogue.

Speaking before the fifth day of talks commenced, Christopher Hill, the US assistant secretary of state and envoy to the talks, said North Korea had not addressed the issue of its atomic programme.

"When the [North] raises problems, one day it's financial issues, another day it's something they want but they know they can't have, another day it's something we said about them that hurt their feelings," Hill said.

"What they need to do is to get serious about the issue that made them such a problem ... their nuclear activities...Our goal is denuclearisation. Period," he said.

Isolation

Pyongyang says the US is trying to isolate North Korea from the international financial system and has insisted that such a campaign ends.

The US accuses North Korea of involvement in the counterfeiting and laundering of money. It has blacklisted Banco Delta Asia, a Macau bank that it alleges the North used to launder money to fund its weapons programme.

Negotiators say North Koreans have refused to talk about their nuclear weapons programme until financial restrictions are dropped.

Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, echoed the US administration's view that financial issues and nuclear talks should be dicussed separately. She said the North Koreans had themselves asked for a separate working group on the matter...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5E9A987F-22DC-4058-878A-48A65699355E.htm

Nuclear talks end with no deal (Guardian)

The S.K. ("left"-liberal) daily Hankyoreh is writing following:

6-party talks end quickly; frugal progress made

A related article, published today in Asia Times (China/HK) you can read here:

The ever-threatening nuclear shadow 

NK propaganda praises its own (nuclear) "power".

BTW: "The most important event of this year: The socialist Korea's break of the nuclear monopol. This is one very important contribution for the peace, not only in Asia, but in the entire world." (so the German fascist organization "Struggle Federation of German Socialists") 

But actually I still don't understand why the DPRK's leadership is feeling forced to join such ("empty and worthless") meetings, when everything is going sooo well, like you can read here:

Dear Leader Keeps The People Warm

It's getting colder in Korea, but that's only for those who go outside. Inside, the apartments are nice and warm, thanks to a large increase in fuel imports, facilitated by dear leader Kim Jong-Il.

Although the imperialists have attempted to block off all access to fuels in order to freeze the country inside and out, the dear leader has made many close friends with leaders of oil rich countries such as Venezuela and Turkmenistan. As such, the blackouts that have plagued many Korean nights will now cease to exist for good thanks to these new worldwide friendships.
 

In contrast, it is predicted that over 30% of the American people will have to spend a few cold nights a week without heat or power. In South Korea, thousands have already frozen to death, as the imperialists have stolen all of the oil out of that country and left the common citizens with nothing. (!!!)

http://www.pyang.su/11122006-01.htm

Or it's just a stupid lie(^^) and following report presents more the "truth"??

Electricity Resumption in Border Area, Temporarily
 
Inside source from North Korea said each house in Musan, Onsung, Hoeryong in North Hamkyong Province, would receive electricity from the December 19th to 24th, commemorating Kim Jong Il’s mother, Kim Jong Suk’s birthday (Dec. 24).

In a telephone interview with the Daily NK, thirty-eight years old resident of Musan, North Hamkyong K said electricity supply was resumed on Tuesday. “Public service workers visited each house and asked them to use only one light bulb per household.”

K said with delightful voice “I’m so happy that I could eat in a bright house, and I could watch TV and VCR, too.”

In this year, North Korea’s electricity production has been worsened than ever that only army barracks, strategic facilities and rice mills were provided electricity.

Lack of electricity has been common since the mid-1990s economic collapse. And it becomes worse in winter, because hydro-electric power plants, which comprise most of North Korea’s electricity-production, cannot produce energy in arid season.

Therefore, North Korea in winter is once described as a “wilderness” by a Korean-Chinese visitor.

Some wealthy North Koreans are equipped with own electric generators, including Chinese solar-light collectors

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In North Korea, electricity is supplied on holidays such as Kim Il Sung’s birthday April 15, Kim Jong Il’s birthday February 16, or Party Foundation Day. Since 1997, Kim Jong Il’s mother, Kim Jong Suk’s birthday has become an official holiday.

http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=1468 
 

The Korean peninsula at night (satellite photo)

^^