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 | A staff worker makes arrangement at the meeting place of the fourth round of six-party talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, capital of China, on Sunday July 24, 2005. The six-party talks is scheduled to begin here on July 26, 2005. click to open  |  | A TV reporter mans his telecamera in front of the North Korean Embassy in Beijing, capital of China, on Sunday July 24, 2005. North and South Korean delegations to this week's six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions agreed at a meeting Sunday that solid progress needs to be made during the upcoming round of discussions. The 100-minute meeting was led by South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Kye Gwan, said Bae Young-han, a spokesman for the delegation from Seoul. click to open |  | U.S. envoy to the six-party talks and Assistant Secretary of State, Christopher Hill gestures as he returns to his hotel in Beijing, China, Sunday, July 24, 2005. As delegates from the six nations arrive in the Chinese capital ahead of renewed talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, North and South Korean delegations agreed at a meeting Sunday that solid progress needs to be made during the upcoming round of discussions. click to open |  | Kenichiro Sasae, director of the Asia and Oceania Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry, who is heading the Japanese delegation for the six-nation talks, prepares to answer media questions upon his arrival at a hotel in Beijing, China, Sunday, July 24, 2005. As delegates from the six nations arrive in the Chinese capital ahead of renewed talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, North and South Korean delegations agreed at a meeting Sunday that solid progress needs to be made during the upcoming round of discussions. click to open |  | Kenichiro Sasae, director of the Asia and Oceania Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry, who is heading the Japanese delegation for the six-nation talks, answers media questions upon his arrival at a hotel in Beijing, China, Sunday, July 24, 2005. As delegates from the six nations arrive in the Chinese capital ahead of renewed talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, North and South Korean delegations agreed at a meeting Sunday that solid progress needs to be made during the upcoming round of discussions. click to open |  | Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and North Korean counterpart Pak Pong-ju (L) walk together after reviewing the honour guard at a welcome ceremony in Beijing March 22, 2005. Pak began a visit to China on Tuesday to study the economic miracle wrought by his country's giant neighbour and closest ally. His visit comes a day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrapped up a 24-hour trip to China, ending an Asia tour aimed at reviving the stalled nuclear talks. click to open |  | Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, stands alongside North Korea's Premier Pak Pong Ju, left, next to a Chinese flag as they listen to the national anthems of both nations in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Tuesday March 22, 2005. Pak Tuesday began a visit to China amid U.S. urging for Beijing to use its influence to prod the North back into nuclear talks and American hints of possible sanctions if Pyongyang doesn't cooperate. click to open |  | Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, accompanies North Korea's Premier Pak Pong Ju, right as he inspects the Chinese honor guard in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Tuesday March 22, 2005. Pak Tuesday began a visit to China amid U.S. urging for Beijing to use its influence to prod the North back into nuclear talks and American hints of possible sanctions if Pyongyang doesn't cooperate. click to open |  | U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right speaks with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing across the table at the Foreign Ministry in Beijing Monday, March 21, 2005. Rice seeks further help from China in getting North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks and has aired Washington's concerns about Beijing's bellicose rhetoric on Taiwan. click to open |  | U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice answers a question during a news conference in Beijing March 21, 2005. Rice, who met China's leaders at the Great Hall of the People, has used her trip to increase pressure on Beijing to persuade its neighbour North Korea to return to negotiations over scrapping its nuclear arms programmes. click to open |
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