Beijing - Envoys from China and North Korea on Thursday discussed plans for more six-nation talks on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. North Korea's envoy to the nuclear talks, Kim Kye Gwan, briefed his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, on recent bilateral negotiations with the United States, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.
Wu and Kim discussed the "direction of the next phase of the the work" and the next round of talks involving North Korea, the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia, Jiang said.
US negotiator Christopher Hill, speaking after two days of talks with Kim in Geneva on Sunday, said North Korea had agreed to declare and halt all of its nuclear activities by the end of 2007.
Jiang said Kim on Thursday had indicated "specific plans" for a "full declaration and disablement of the nuclear facilities."
"We hope in the next [six-party] meeting, that the relevant parties could have further discussions on this issue," she said.
She said China was "actively preparing" for the next round of talks, which are expected to take place in Beijing this month.
On Monday, North Korea said the United States had agreed at the Geneva talks to remove it from a list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism, but Hill later said Pyongyang still had to take "further steps" before its removal from the list.
The North Korean government confirmed that it had vowed to dismantle all facilities at its main Yongbyon complex by the end of this year.
Hill said the detailed implementation of Sunday's agreement would be worked out in the six-nation talks.
South Korea and China welcomed the agreement, which came after the Bush administration refused for years to have direct talks with North Korea.
