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S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold vice ministers' meeting on DPRK nuke test in Tokyo

Xinhua, January 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Vice foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday to discuss countermeasures after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear test, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday.

Attending the second round of such meeting will be South Korea's first vice minister for foreign affairs Lim Sun-Nam, U.S. deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken and Japan's vice foreign minister Akitaka Saiki. The first round was held in Washington in April 2015.

During the weekend meeting, the senior diplomats will make in-depth discussion on the DPRK's nuclear program, according to the ministry. Seoul's vice minister is pushing to hold bilateral talks with his Tokyo and Washington counterparts separately from the trilateral meeting.

Ahead of the meeting, the three countries' chief delegates to six-party talks to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula will gather in Seoul on Wednesday to discuss the DPRK's claim of its first successful hydrogen bomb test.

The six-party talks involves South Korea, the DPRK, China, the United States, Japan and Russia. Schedules for chief delegates talks between South Korea and Russia are under discussion. Enditem