The six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear standoff will resume here on Tuesday with the US insisting that all nuclear programmes be dismantled by Pyongyang which in turn is demanding that it be allowed peaceful use of atomic energy.The fourth round of talks broke off last month as envoys of the US, China, Japan, Russia and the two Koreas failed to agree on a statement of principles laying a groundwork for dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons programmes .‘‘The Korean peninsula nuclear issue cannot not be solved in one day and the negotiation might be a rather long process,’’ Alexander Alexeyev, the head of the Russian delegation who arrived here for the in-camera talks, said.While the first phase of the talks was ‘‘fruitful’’, it was hard to predict the result of the upcoming second-phase negotiation, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said.‘‘North Korea has the right to develop its civilian nuclear capacity and can expect cooperation with other countries if it returns to nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,’’ he was quoted as saying by South Korea’s Joongang Ilbo daily earlier.Washington has objected to N Korea’s civilian nuclear programme. ‘‘What North Korea has to do is get out of the nuclear business,’’ Christopher Hill, chief US envoy to the six-party talks, said on Friday. ‘‘Nuclear weapons, nuclear programs are not something that one should leave in an ambiguous state,’’ he said.However, Pyongyang said it was ‘‘unimaginable’’ that it would dismantle its nuclear power industry. —PTI
