While his mother, because shielding his crimes, was sentenced to three years imprisonment, suspended for four years.

而他的母亲，因为包庇了他的罪行，被判了有期徒刑三年，缓刑四年。

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The diplomats seemed to point the way for a possible revival of the six-nation talks that have been suspended for four years.

NPR: As US Talks Up Diplomacy, NKorea Takes Hard Line

The U.S. is adamant that North recommit itself to giving up nuclear weapons, as it did in a 2005 agreement arising from the so-called six-party talks: aid-for-disarmament negotiations hosted by China, and also joined by Japan, Russia and South Korea, that have been suspended for four years.

NPR: Analysis: US Offers Talks But Not On NKorean Terms

Previously, Reid, of Braunton Road, Barnstaple, was jailed for four months, suspended for two years and ordered to do 150 hours unpaid community work in October 2011.

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