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Beijing: A top US envoy said on Wednesday there was no immediate breakthrough in persuading North Korea to turn over a long-delayed declaration of all its nuclear programs for eventual dismantlement.
"Things are moving ahead, but I'm not in a position to talk about a timetable," US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said after two days of meetings with North Korean nuclear envoy Kim Kye Gwan, the first between the envoys since early April.
During his stop in Beijing, Hill also met with Chinese and Japanese envoys and will head to Moscow on Thursday to meet Russian officials and the South Korean nuclear envoy.
Hill was pessimistic when asked whether the disarmament of the North's nuclear facilities was progressing as scheduled. "Completing everything by the end of the year will be a challenge," he said.
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