MOSCOW - FULL six-party negotiations on disarming North Korea could resume within months, Interfax cited Russia's foreign ministry as saying, following Yongbyon's partial demolition of a nuclear plant.

The six parties - North and South Korea, Japan, Russia, China and the United States - are expected to meet in Beijing early next month at delegation level to discuss ways to verify the North's denuclearisation efforts.

A full ministerial meeting of the Six 'could take place within the next two months', the news agency quoted the foreign ministry's press service as saying on Friday.