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 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Negotiators from Japan, South Korea and the United States met Thursday to coordinate strategy for resuming talks to pressure North Korea to give up its atomic weapons, after the North's leader reportedly said a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula was his father's dying wish.
North Korea agreed Saturday to end a 13-month boycott of the six-nation talks after being assured by the chief U.S. nuclear envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, that Washington recognized its sovereignty.
Hill met Thursday in Seoul with the South's nuclear negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon, and Kenichiro Sasae, director of the Asia and Oceania Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry. They will head their countries' delegations at the arms talks set to convene the week of July 25. The talks also include China and Russia.
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