Seoul: North Korea`s Foreign Ministry on Friday said it would continue cooperating with the United States to narrow differences over its nuclear issue.
"The DPRK (North Korea) and the United States agreed to continue cooperation in order to narrow remaining differences," a spokesman of the North`s Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The two sides had long "sincere and frank" talks on a wide range of issues, including a peace treaty and the normalisation of relations, economic and energy aid and the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, he said.
"Through business-like and frank discussions, the two sides were able to deepen mutual understanding, narrow differences in views and find considerable common ground," it said.
They also shared views on the need to resume six-party disarmament talks and the implementation of the September 2005 joint statement, he added.
In September 2005, the North vowed in a six-party joint statement to scrap its nuclear weaponry in exchange for aid, diplomatic benefits and talks on a permanent peace pact for the peninsula.
After returning from a three-day visit to Pyongyang, US envoy Stephen Bosworth yesterday said that the United States and North Korea agreed on the need to resume the stalled six-party nuclear disarmament negotiations.
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