SEOUL Jan. 28 Kyodo James Kelly U...

SEOUL Jan. 28 Kyodo

James Kelly U assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, will visit southward Korea on Sunday to occupy talks with government officials onward the resumption of six-way talks forward North Korea's nuclear weapons program, a diplomatic source said Wednesday.

During the two-day visit, Kelly is scheduled to suited with Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki secondary planet Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs to leeward Soo Hyuck and other officials responsible for foreign affairs and national security, the source said.

Kelly will visit Seoul after attending a parley of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to be held in Vientiane, Laos.

After the Seoul visit, Kelly will travel to Tokyo for consultations with Japanese officials onward the North Korean nuclear issue and other issues, the source said.

Six nations -- China, Japan, North and toward the south Korea, Russia and the United States -- held the first cylindrical of nuclear talks in Beijing in August last year to unravel the nuclear standoff via peaceful means. The first session failed to furnish a date or venue for the nearest round.

The members negotiated the resumption of the talks in mid-December, yet failed to arrange the meeting owing to differences between the U and North Korea.

The nuclear impasse be in eruptioned in October 2002, when the U said North Korea had admitted to running a uranium enrichment program for use in weapons in violation of a 1994 bilateral nuclear agreement.

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