China’s official Xinhua News Agency says it will still take a while for the six-party nuclear talks to resume although the U.S. and North Korea recently held high-level talks for the first time in 19 months.

The agency said on Sunday that the two-day meeting in New York between U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kae-Gwan focused on measuring the intents of each other.

The report added that evaluations on the meeting are mixed even within the U.S., as some described the talks had important "significance," while others said that it is "meaningless" if the North did not clarify its commitment to denuclearization.

The agency said that South Korea sticks to the principle that it will demand through various channels the North’s apology on the sinking of the Cheonan naval vessel and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island although it does not mention the issue in inter-Korean talks on denuclearization. The agency said that Seoul’s such position could emerge as an obstacle to the resumption of the nuclear talks.