| U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill (front, C) chats with U.S. Ambassador to China Clark Randt (R) at the opening of the six-party denuclearisation working group talks in Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse March 17, 2007. North Korea's chief nuclear envoy said on Saturday his country would not stop its nuclear development programme if the United States did not first lift financial curbs on North Korean accounts in a Macau bank. At left, partly obscured, are members of the North Korean delegation to the talks. [Reuters] |
