Seoul, South Korea, Feb 26, SPA -- The United States, Japan and South Korea urged North Korea on Saturday to return tonuclear disarmament talks without delay, indicating theywould not give the communist state any rewards before thenegotiations resume. The three allies also urged China _ North Korea's lastremaining major ally and key supplier of energy and trade _to play a bigger role in persuading the North thatreturning to the talks was in its interest. The unified stance was forged when top negotiators fromthe three allies met in Seoul to discuss how to deal withNorth Korea's recent announcement that it has nuclearweapons and was boycotting six-nation talks aimed at endingits nuclear weapons ambitions. "We agreed to urge North Korea to return to the meetingwithout delay so that it can have wide-ranging discussionson matters of its concern and all other issues," South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon told reportersafter Saturday's meeting. The meeting, the first of its kind since the North's Feb.10 announcement, were also attended by Kenichiro Sasae,director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry'sAsia-Oceania bureau; and Christopher Hill, the U.S.ambassador to Seoul who has been named Washington's topnegotiator in the North Korean nuclear dispute. Hill declined to make comments, except calling Saturday'sconsultations an "excellent meeting." But Sasae told reporters that North Korea must rejoin thetalks "without any conditions."--SPA1114 Local Time 0814 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/242411