The United States urged all the countries in the nuclear talks with North Korea on Friday to bring Pyongyang back to the table, Reuters reported. "All countries should be doing everything they can to get the DPRK to come to the talk and fulfil obligations under the Beijing agreement," Christopher Hill, the top U.S. negotiator with North Korea, told reporters in Hanoi. Hill said he had discussed the content of the six-party talks with China in Beijing, and its ideas on how to bring North Korea, officially called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), back to the talks. He gave no prospective date. The nuclear talks, which group the two Koreas, host China, the United States, Russia and Japan, made progress in November when Pyongyang agreed in principle to dismantle its atomic weapons in exchange for aid and security guarantees. North Korea has since threatened a boycott because of a U.S. crackdown on its finances. The last round of talks took place in November. On Friday, Pyongyang reiterated that the U.S. financial crackdown was part of a campaign by Washington to force it to accept a deal on ending its nuclear weapons programmes. "The United States is very much committed to this diplomatic process. We want it to work and we want full participation in it and we want it to succeed," Hill said.
