(SomaliNet) If a financial dispute with United States (U.S) government in Washington is not resolved, North Korea may be compelled to announce plans for another nuclear test, a source said on Wednesday. This move would also show a sign of Pyongyang's impatience with a lack of progress in talks. A news source close to the North Korean government said that the United States lacked evidence of wrongdoing, and North Korea was likely to express its frustration when it came to six-party talks to discuss scrapping Pyongyang's nuclear programmes, scheduled to resume on February 8 in Beijing. "If the United States does not resolve it, North Korea will have no choice but to announce at the six-party talks that it plans to conduct another test," the source said.
The last session of talks grouping the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and China was held in December -- two months after Pyongyang dramatically raised the stakes by staging its first nuclear test -- and produced no breakthrough.