Nuclear talks end with no progress

Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme ended abruptly with no progress yesterday after four days of negotiations derailed by the issue of funds frozen in a Macau bank. Throughout the session, which began on Monday, North Korea avoided discussing a...

Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme ended abruptly with no progress yesterday after four days of negotiations derailed by the issue of funds frozen in a Macau bank.

Throughout the session, which began on Monday, North Korea avoided discussing a February deal to shut its main nuclear reactor by mid-April, demanding that $25 million at Macau's Banco Delta Asia first be transferred to a bank in Beijing.

North Korean envoy Kim Kye-gwan left for home suddenly without talking to reporters, but a North Korean government source in Beijing said: "Our delegation went home because there was no progress on the promised transfer of the funds."

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