SINGAPORE (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hopes to judge North Korea's seriousness about abandoning nuclear weapons when she holds the Bush administration's highest-level talks in four years with the Stalinist state this week.
The North has been given a four-page draft document laying out what the United States wants from it to prove it has told the truth about its past atomic programs. Rice expects Pyongyang's foreign minister to provide at least an initial response to the proposal at Wednesday's meeting.
s earlier this month by Hill and representatives of the other four nations pushing the denuclearization effort.

By VOA News China says the foreign ministers from nations involved in talks on North Korea's nuclear program will meet informally Wednesday during a

SINGAPORE (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived Tuesday in Singapore, where she will attend a six-party meeting on North Korea's nuclear programmes on the sidelines of a regional security forum.
Rice arrived in the city-state from Abu Dhabi, where she had briefed Arab allies on the nuclear standoff with Iran, an AFP correspondent travelling with her said.
North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun which will take place here.

SINGAPORE, July 22 (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Singapore on Tuesday for six-party talks over North Korea's weapons

Foreign ministers from the six nations involved in talks aimed at disarming North Korea are to meet in Singapore on Wednesday, officials say.
It would be the first such meeting between top diplomats from Japan, the US, China, Russia, and the two Koreas since the nuclear talks began in 2003.
over a declaration of its nuclear work

By Jon Herskovitz SEOUL, July 21 (Reuters) - Sputtering talks on ending North Korea's nuclear plans will gain a higher profile this week with an unprecedented meeting of ministers, but lingering questions on the North's ambitions threaten to drag the process down.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will have her first meeting with the North's top diplomat, Pak Ui-chun, when foreign ministers from six countries involved in North Korean disarmament talks hold discussions at a forum in Singapore tentatively set for Wednesday.
th off a terrorism blacklist and removing trade sanctions.