BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea is not eager to return to six-party talks but has not rejected the idea, the U.N.'s top political official said on Friday following a trip to the reclusive country.
"Their attitude right now, certainly they're not happy with sanctions. They're certainly not eager, not ruling out, but not eager to return to six-party talks," Lynn Pascoe, under-secretary-general for political affairs, told reporters in Beijing.
Pascoe said the country was only getting about a quarter of the aid it needed, and cited donor fatigue as one of the reasons for the shortfall.
North Korea's chief nuclear envoy will make a rare visit to the United States next month, a news report said earlier on Friday, raising expectations that long-stalled talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions could be back on track.
(Reporting by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
