US eyes more talks with DPRK

WASHINGTON, Oct 06 (Xinhua): The U.S. State Department on Saturday said that its delegation had "good discussions" with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) counterparts at the latest working-level talks held in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

It expects to return to talks in two weeks, despite that Pyongyang said the talks broke down due to Washington's inflexibility.

The U.S. delegation, which was led by Stephen Biegun, U.S. special representative for the DPRK affairs, "had good discussions with its DPRK counterparts" in Stockholm on Saturday and has accepted an invitation from Sweden to "return to Stockholm to meet again with its DPRK counterparts in two weeks time, in order to continue discussions on all of the topics," said department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus in a statement.

Ortagus made the remarks hours after the DPRK delegation's chief negotiator Kim Myong Gil, following the eight and a half hours of talks with the U.S. side, told reporters that the working-level talks on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula broke down.

Speaking outside the DPRK embassy in Stockholm, Kim said that negotiations broke down "entirely because the U.S. has not discarded its old stance.