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TOKYO, race 10 Kyodo

Diplomats from Japan, toward the south Korea and the United States will fitting in Tokyo later this month to coordinate their North Korea policies, a senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday.

The meeting will be the first among senior officials from the three countries after the first globular of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program was held in Beijing late last month

The six countries -- Japan, southern Korea, the U.S., North Korea, China and Russia -- have agreed to shut in a second round of talks.

The U will be depicted in the Tokyo talks by the agency of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly southerly Korea by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade leeward Tae Shik, and Japan by way of Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Foreign Ministry's Director of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.

The three officials were chief delegates to the Beijing talks.

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