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Tentative Agreement Reached in N. Korea Talks  (click for full article)

By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 12, 2007; 5:30 PM

BEIJING, Feb. 13 -- Envoys from six nations reached a tentative agreement early Tuesday on the first steps toward North Korea's nuclear disarmament, a potential breakthrough in talks that have faltered repeatedly since 2003.

The chief U.S. negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, qualified the draft accord as "excellent" but declined to provide details. He said it was being submitted to all six governments and, pending their formal approval, would be ratified at a meeting scheduled later Tuesday in Beijing.

"We would like to think that we can all agree on this," Hill said in a briefing for reporters. "We feel it is an excellent draft, so I don't think we would be the problem."