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Six-Party Talks: The first two days.. actually without any real new developments..

So the int'l news agencies, like here al-Jazeera, had nothing really to report..

N. Korea talks mull China plan   
 
Envoys to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme are considering a proposal put forward by China for Pyongyang to suspend operations at its nuclear facilities within two months in exchange for energy aid.
  
The proposal was made by the Chinese after the first day of talks in Beijing, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.
  
The plan has raised hopes of progress at the current round of talks after the US and North Korean envoys held bilateral meetings in Berlin last month.
 
The meetings were seen as easing tensions that had increased after the North conducted its first nuclear test last October, drawing UN sanctions.
 
Envoys from South Korea, China, the US, Japan and Russia voiced hope that North Korea would accept measures to rein in its nuclear activities in return for aid and security assurances.

 
The reported Chinese plan largely reflects an outline agreement struck at six-party talks in September 2005 but never implemented.
  
The chief US negotiator admitted that the six-party process – begun more than three years ago – had so far made little headway.
 
"We've gone 18 months without anything, and so we have to pick up the pace," Christopher Hill told reporters on Friday before going into the second day of talks.

'First step'
 
Kim Kye-gwan, the chief North Korean envoy, told the delegates on Thursday that Pyongyang was "ready to make its first step" towards denuclearisation, Russia's Interfax new agency reported, quoting an unidentified source.
 
US officials, cited by NBC News, said North Korea was offering to suspend and eventually disable its nuclear programme and permit UN inspections of facilities.

 
In exchange the US would establish diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, UN sanctions would end and the North would receive hundreds of millions of dollars in fuel aid.

 
However, Kenichiro Sasae, Japan's chief negotiator said the six sides still had much ground to cover.
 
"It's too early to discuss whether the draft agreement is acceptable as each country is to present its ideas and I believe China has its own ideas," he said.
  
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3D534BC9-38B8-464B-B4A2-D5BA7BD117B7.htm

Please read also the report by The Guardian (UK) 

☞ US to climbdown as Korea nuclear talks near deal
 

My comment/opinion about the issue will follow -likely(^^) - tomorrow..