| A meeting between US President George W Bush and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, next week will help lay the groundwork for six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons, a US diplomat said. US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, in Beijing for “strategic” talks, told Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo that North Korea and its nuclear weapons were on his agenda. “We are very interested in also talking about what we can do to defuse the problem of North Korea’s nuclear ambition,” he told Dai in front of reporters before entering talks. |