The United States is prepared for serious discussion on the financial assets dispute with North Korea but will not make concessions just to encourage success in six-party talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear program, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. The official, who spoke anonymously so as not to upset six-country talks that resumed this week in Beijing, seemed keen to dampen speculation that separate discussions on the North’s suspected counterfeiting and other illicit activities might show an early breakthrough. Full Story