Top Japanese envoy Kenichiro Sasae (L) meets China's deputy foreign minister Wu Dawei as top envoys gather for a dinner on the eve of the resumption of six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, December 17, 2006. The talks, which involve the two Koreas, host China, the United States, Japan and Russia, started in 2003 in an effort to stop the DPRK from acquiring nuclear weapons. [Reuters]

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