BEIJING (Reuters):

North Korea will feel compelled to announce plans for another nuclear test if a financial row with Washington is not settled, a source said yesterday as the latest talks wound up with no signs of a breakthrough.

U.S. Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Daniel Glaser, after meeting North Korean officials in Beijing on the financial dispute, described discussions as 'painstaking'.

The U.S. Treasury has accused North Korea of using Macau's Banco Delta Asia to launder earnings from counterfeit U.S. dollars and drug trafficking.

But a source close to the North Korean government said Pyongyang felt Washington lacked evidence of wrongdoing and wanted a quick solution.