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Christopher Hill, US Assistant Secretary of State(File photo)

US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill says the DPRK is

agreeing to declare and disable all of its nuclear programs by the end of

this year.

This follows meetings between Washington and Pyongyang in Geneva.

US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill calls the two days of

talks with the DPRK substantive. He says they will help improve the

chances of success at the six-party talks later this month in Beijing.

Hill says they agreed the DPRK will provide a full declaration of all

nuclear programs and will disable those programs by the end of this year.

Hill said, "I think this is very important. Of course we will have to

work out some of the details of this in the six party process because, as

I have stressed many times, this is not a bilateral process at all. It's

a multilateral six party process but we had a very good understanding of

this today and an understanding that we need to pick up the pace and get

through this phase in 2007."