The Korean Times..

Sometimes it seems as if the U.S nuclear negotiators are coping with two adversaries-North Korea and Washington hard liners..

Assistnat Secretary of State Christophr Hill returned from this three-day visit to North Korea Friday, managing to keep Pyongyang from restarting the Yongbyon plant for the time being if the ongoing stoppage of any related news from the North is any guide.

Based on various speculative reports, the U.S. envoy and his North Korean counterparts seem to have exchanged their respective compromise plans and are now weighing each other's proposals. Hill reportedly propoesd the separate verification scheme, in which the United States remains content with the inspection of Yongbyon plutonium plant plus some nuclear sampling, while unreported facilities, uranium plant, and programs, proliferation to Middle East countries, for sometime later..