N-talks with S made progress: DPRK

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SEOUL, Oct 27 (AFP): North Korea said Thursday its talks with the United States this week on nuclear disarmament made progress and the two sides would hold further meetings. The talks "helped deepen each other's understanding and made a series of progress", a foreign ministry spokesman told Pyongyang's official news agency. "Both sides decided to further... contacts and talks to discuss and solve the pending issues in the light of building confidence." However the North reiterated that full six-nation nuclear negotiations should restart without preconditions, a stance opposed by Washington and its allies. US and North Korean negotiators met Monday and Tuesday in Geneva for talks about ways to revive the stalled six-nation forum.