with north korea. the six-party talk, alongside china, south korea, russia and japan, two years later in february 2005, north korea suspends involvement in the negotiations, citing u.s. conditions and resistance, after restart in summer 2005, again only takes 13 days for the negotiations to derail. 2006, despite suspending involvement in the talks several times that year, north korea agrees to end nuclear weapons program. this is 12 years ago. only about half a year later in september 2005, once again north korea suspends participation in the talk over u.s. sanctions. soon thereafter in october 2006, it launches first nuclear test. 07-08. in 2007, six-party talks resume, north korea grease to major concessions, steps are taken to follow through on promises but then north korea rejects u.s. verification methods, violates its own promises, causing the breakdown