Six-nation talks on ending North Korean nuclear programs will take a two day break while participants consider a draft statement on shutting down the North's nuclear installations, the chief Chinese envoy to talks said Sunday. Wu Dawei said the document was being kept private until the governments of North Korea, China, Japan, Russia, the United States and South Korea have had time to consider it. Talks were to reconvene later in the week in Beijing. Negotiators have been trying to push forward a February agreement under which the countries agreed to provide North Korea with 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil, or the monetary equivalent in other aid and assistance. In return, North Korea agreed to shut down its main nuclear reactor, which it did in July, and declare and ultimately dismantle all its nuclear programs, the Associated Press reported.
