BEIJING, Feb. 26 Kyodo - North Korea intends to freeze its nuclear programs for military use but not those designed for the peaceful use of atomic energy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said Thursday.

Losyukov made the comment to reporters at the end of the second day of six-party talks in Beijing involving China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia and the United States to discuss the North's nuclear development programs.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao, however, told a separate press conference that North Korea did not say during the current multilateral talks that it intends to continue developing nuclear technologies for peaceful use.

The six-party talks are aimed at urging North Korea to give up all of its nuclear development programs. The parties have gathered in the Chinese capital for their second round of talks following the inaugural meeting last August. ==Kyodo