Japanese chief negotiator for the six-party talks Sasae speaks to journalists at a hotel in Beijing
Japanese chief negotiator for the six-party talks Kenichiro Sasae speaks to journalists at a hotel in Beijing February 8, 2007. Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear programme resume in Beijing on Thursday with the top U.S. envoy denying a Japanese media report that the isolated state had signed a deal with Washington. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV (CHINA)