Seoul, Sept 12: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il was reportedly unsatisfied with last month's six-nation talks aimed at easing a stand-off over his nuclear ambitions, a news report said today. Kim's disappointment was reportedly disclosed by President Vladimir Putin's envoy to Russia's Far East, Konstantin Pulikovsky, who visited Pyongyang this week, said the report.
Pulikovsky told an unnamed Russian radio station yesterday that Kim did not express any satisfaction with the outcome of last month's six-nation talks during their meeting in Pyongyang on September 9, the report said.
But it said the Russian envoy refused give details why Kim was unhappy with the talks' results and whether his regime would take part in the next round, if any. The Russia envoy was in Pyongyang from September 8-11 for the 55th anniversary on Tuesday of North Korea's foundation.
Top negotiators from the United States, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia met in Beijing in late august to discuss the 11-month crisis over Pyongyang's suspected nuclear weapons programmes.
Though agreeing to meet again, the delegates failed to fix a date and venue for the second round of talks with North Korea terming the first round as "useless", blaming a hard-line US policy. Bureau Report