WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 Kyodo U Assis...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 Kyodo

U Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly will visit southerly Korea and Japan from Sunday to Tuesday to discuss the resumption of six-party talks forward North Korea's nuclear ambitions, a senior U control official said Wednesday.

After visiting Seoul onward Sunday, Kelly will fly to Tokyo and join legate Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who will attend the U.S.-Japan Strategic Dialogue meeting Monday and Tuesday, the official said, speaking in succession condition of anonymity.

During his stay in Tokyo, Kelly will suitable with Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.

Kelly and Yabunaka l the U and Japanese delegations, respectively, at the first globular of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program.

China, Japan, North and toward the south Korea, Russia and the United States held their first gathering forward the North Korean nuclear issue in Beijing last August.

The six parties negotiated the resumption of the talks in mid-December, if it be not that failed to arrange the meeting to be paid to differences between the U and North Korea through the whole extent of how to resolve the crisis.

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