Chief negotiators from Japan, the United States and South Korea
of the six-party talks over the Korean Peninsular nuclear issue
will meet on Monday in Tokyo, Kyodo News said on
Sunday.
South Korea's deputy foreign minister Chun Young Woo said so
after he met with Kenichiro Sasae, head of the Japanese Foreign
Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.
The two delegates to the six-party talks stressed the need to
have the North Korea to return to the talks as early as possible,
Sasae said.
US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs Christopher Hill is expected to arrive in Japan on Monday
for the 17th Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue meeting.
The six-party talks on the Korean Peninsular nuclear issue,
which involves North Korea, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and
the United States, were last held in November 2005. Several rounds
of the six-party talks have taken place in Beijing since August
2003.
(Xinhua News Agency April 10, 2006)
