representative glyn davies discussed the proposal with they south korean counterpart. >> in all of about four hours of discussion, very wide range. we talked about all aspects of the north korean issue. and we will come back to the table tomorrow. >> davies plans to sit down with a senior japanese official on wednesday. ihara is chief of the foreign ministry's asian affairs bureau. negotiators to the six-party talks last met nearly five years ago. north korean officials want to resume the talks without preconditions. china chairs the forum and its leaders back the north's position, but officials in the u.s., south korea and ja fan want to see concrete action first. they're calling on leaders in pyongyang to make progress on denuclearization. >>> japan's financial authorities are reinspecting the mizuho bank to see if the bank unintentionally filed a false report on local loans to criminal syndicates as the bankers claim. they say its officials didn't investigate thoroughly and that they made a mistake in saying that the top executives knew of the lending policies. the financial services

the participants included glyn davies, the u.s. special representative for north korea policy. joining him there were junichi ihara, chief of the japanese foreign ministry's asian affairs bureau and cho tae-yong of south korea. he's a special representative for peace and security on the korean peninsula. negotiators last met nearly five years ago. north korean officials want to restart the talks but without preconditions. they disagree. they say leaders in pyongyang must first take concrete steps towards ending the nuclear program. china chairs the talks. the country's leaders initially backed the north's position, but officials now say there could be certain conditions. china's top negotiator visited washington last month to present a proposal on the talks. sources say he ander envoys have yet to see eye to eye on the talks. wu and davies are scheduled to meet late they are month in beijing. >>> there's more economic data out indicating improvement. ron madison has the numbers. >> further signs that the nation's economy is on a firm recovery path. in fact, a key index climbed

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u s special representative for north korea policy glyn davies held talks with the south korean counterpart retail and small on this friday after over two hours of consultations that she reaffirmed that the single most important condition for returning to the new playstation talks is north korea's sincerity. on sunday has more meeting for the second time this month south korea. she knew the non bleach with neil and his us counterpart the eighties yes i am that befell the most important condition for returning the six party talks and north korea gets its duty to the new contract. we have no interest in going back to six party talks absent are concrete indications that north korea. it is ready to give up its nuclear weapons because that is the primary our focus off of the six party talks process. he and john did not shake and seventy eight for visiting the six party kenya citation talks involving the two kirby as the united states china japan and russia have bean stall since late two thousand and eight a defect that spill in washington that we are here to help out the door. so we're looking f

u s special representative for north korea policy glyn davies met with his south korean counterpart phil taylor in seoul on friday. davies express strong discontent with the north's officials he said. they failed to show they're serious about making concessions. we call on north korea. to meaningfully. in the direction of the demands made by the international community to give up its nuclear weapons. that or that we had a good discussion this is part of the ongoing negotiation process among six countries for north korea's denuclearization the baby's bed earlier with china's nuclear envoy would die away who chairs the six party talks in beijing. they agreed to put more pressure on the north. if readers don't take action. davies plastic ordinate with japan and south korea as well as china to keep the pressure on the north. military officials from both and both north and south korea say they are counter any provocation from the other side. this weekend marks the third anniversary of the north shelling of a south korean border island the north korean military fired artillery shells on the ol

us representative for north korea policy glyn davies and the japanese foreign ministry's asian in oceania fears bureau chief jane e t i met in washington on wednesday local time the three reportedly assess the current situation on the korean peninsula and may temper on agreement on the pre conditions needed for the resumption of the long stalled six party nuclear talks. they know to have reaffirmed the need for north korea to first take a solid step that tree and its willingness to kenya to rise before the multilateral dialogue can reopen. north korea continues to call for the non conventional resumption of talks the trilateral meeting comes amid active diplomatic efforts by china to act as a mediator beeen the north and the three allies government sources and scholars say that three sides also share the outcome of the talks between china's new viewpoint men would outweigh and cds last week but are unlikely to accept the blues needed proposal of the preconditions for all sold thirty one washington want to see a more advanced framework from the game. moo is now in kenya and in an apparent