on-one talks and a working lunch Friday, their fourth meeting since talking on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Chile in November. U.S. officials claimed this week to have made progress in talks with North Korean officials in New York, saying Pyongyang expressed its commitment to the arms negotiations, which also include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. However, no date was set for negotiations to restart, and the South treated the development with skepticism. Roh and Bush have deeply divergent stances on North Korea. The United States views the North as a rogue regime at risk of proliferating weapons of mass destruction and a member of Bush's «axis of evil,» while the South is trying to coexist peacefully with its communist neighbor, said Peter Beck, Seoul-based director of the North East Asia Project for the International Crisis Group. --More 1257 Local Time 0957 GMT
