GENEVA/SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korean and U.S. diplomats on Tuesday began a second day of talks during which Washington wants to see whether the North is indeed prepared to take concrete steps toward denuclearization before the stalled six-nation talks can resume.

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan and Stephen Bosworth, Washington's outgoing top envoy for Pyongyang, and his successor Glyn Davies sat down at the North's U.N. mission in Geneva for the discussions, the second bilateral encounter between both sides in less than three months.