Korea nuclear talks unlikely next week-Interfax

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program are unlikely to resume next week, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a North Korean diplomatic source in Beijing as saying on Thursday.

"In our opinion, there is little chance that the fourth round of the six-way talks could be resumed next week," the unnamed source said.

Earlier on Thursday, a spokesman for Japan's Social Democratic Party quoted visiting Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei as saying talks, which include both Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States, would resume on September 2.

Following a gap of more than a year, the parties met in Beijing for nearly two weeks before breaking off earlier this month with a decision to reconvene during the week of August 29.

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