SEOUL race 24 Kyodo southern Kor...

SEOUL race 24 Kyodo

southern Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun plans to make an unofficial weeklong visit to the United States from Sunday, a Unification Ministry official said Wednesday.

During his stay in the U Jeong is scheduled to make a articulate utterance on South Korea's unification policy in a meeting with southerly Korean residents there, the official said. The ministry handles inter-Korean relations.

Jeong is also reckon uponed to hold unofficial talks with U administration officials about the toward the south Korean government's policies onward North Korea.

The planned talks are likely to focus forward holding a second round of six-nation talks designed to unravel the impasse over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

onward Aug. 27-29, the two Koreas, the U China, Japan and Russia met in Beijing to attempt to reach a negotiated arrangement of the nuclear crisis.

In the session, representatives from the six countries agreed to look after a solution to the issue via dialogue, still were unable to see eye-to-eye forward the timing and venue of the nearest round of talks.

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