为重启陷于僵局的北韩核项目的六方会谈，美国北韩问题特使会见了中方官员。
斯蒂芬.博斯沃思特使在北京告诉记者说，美国希望参与多边及与北韩的双边会谈。这位美国北韩问题特使说，华盛顿认为，“解决该地区的问题…在于对话和谈判。”
博斯沃思讲上述那番话之前，星期四同中国外长杨洁篪和中国负责北韩问题会谈的首席谈判代表武大伟举行了会谈。
美国北韩问题特使博斯沃思星期四早些时候抵达中国首都北京访问，这是他此次亚洲之行的第一站。
博斯沃思和美国代表团其他成员星期五将飞往韩国，然后前往日本和俄罗斯访问。
由于北韩共产党政权最近几周的一系列挑衅行动，朝鲜半岛无核化的前景变得更加渺茫。
星期四早些时候，一家韩国报纸报导说，北韩一处核基地的活动有所增加。朝鲜日报星期四的一篇报导援引一位不具姓名的政府官员的话说，平壤看来已准备好不久将进行一次地下核试验。
The U.S. envoy for North Korea has met with Chinese officials as part of an effort to revive stalled talks on North Korea’s nuclear program.
Special Representative Stephen Bosworth told reporters in Beijing that the United States wants to engage multilaterally and bilaterally with North Korea. The U.S. diplomat said Washington believes, in his words, that “the solution to problems…of the area lies in dialogue and negotiation.”
Bosworth spoke Thursday after meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Beijing’s top negotiator for the North Korea talks, Wu Dawei.
The special representative for North Korea arrived in the Chinese capital earlier Thursday on the first stop of a regional tour.
Bosworth and other members of a U.S. delegation will fly to South Korea Friday, before continuing on to Japan and Russia.
Prospects for a de-nuclearized Korean peninsula have diminished in recent weeks with a series of defiant moves by North Korea’s communist government.
Earlier Thursday, a South Korean newspaper reported that activities have increased at a nuclear test site in North Korea. “Chosun Ilbo” quotes an anonymous government source as saying that Pyongyang appears to be ready to conduct an underground nuclear test in the near future.