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Nuclear Envoys Of US, South Korea, Japan To Meet In Seoul Over North Korea
Swarajya Staff
Dec 01, 2016, 06:03 PM | Updated 06:03 PM IST
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Top nuclear envoys of the United States (US), South Korea and Japan have agreed to meet in the South Korean capital in mid-December, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Thursday (1 December). The talks between the three allies would be the first since South Korea, the US and Japan held such a meeting in Tokyo on 1 June.
Foreign ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuk told a press briefing that Kim Hong-kyun, who represents South Korea in the long-stalled six-party talks to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula, would meet in Seoul with his US and Japanese counterparts around the middle of this month, Xinhua reported.
The spokesman said the meeting schedule came in consideration of the adoption of a new United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution on North Korea and its follow-up sanctions against it, expected to come out soon from the three allies. Seoul said it plans to announce its unilateral sanctions on Pyongyang on Friday (2 December), after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted the resolution over North Korea's fifth nuclear test on 9 November.
With inputs from IANS
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