MOSCOW (Sputnik) – There are no plans to hold six-party talks on North Korea’s denuclearization following the latest nuclear tests confirmed to have been carried out by Pyongyang, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti on Friday.
"At this stage, the issue of convening the six-party talks by any of its parties is not on the agenda," the source said.
On June 22, a high-level North Korean diplomat on nuclear affairs said at a security conference in China that the six-party talks on the dismantling of Pyongyang’s nuclear program were "dead."
The six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula initially included South and North Korea, Russia, the United States, China and Japan. The talks were held between 2003 and 2009, before Pyongyang's withdrawal.
