TOKYO, Aug. 12 Kyodo Foreign Mini...

TOKYO, Aug. 12 Kyodo

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi will visit toward the south Korea in the latter half of nearest week to coordinate policy with her southerly Korean counterpart over the planned six-nation talks to reduce problems stemming from North Korea's nuclear weapons progressive growth program, ministry officials said.

Kawaguchi plans to visit Seoul for pair days from Aug. 21 or 22 for talks with southern Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yoon Young Kwan, the officials said.

Kawaguchi has said she intends to visit southward Korea prior to the six-way talks to confirm cooperation in the discussions.

North Korea has informed any of the countries that will participate in the talks that it has agreed to grasp them from Aug. 27 to 29 in Beijing, sources shut to Russia-North Korea relations said Tuesday.

An informal reception for the talks is reckon uponed to be held on Aug. 26 separate sources said.

The six-nation talks will involve China, Japan, North and southern Korea, the United States and Russia.

Japan and southerly Korea have been calling for their inclusion in any multilateral talks in succession North Korea's nuclear weapons progression in a continuously ascending gradation program, as they were left not at home from the previous talks held through China, North Korea and the U in April.

The couple countries have said their participation in the talks is indispensable to achieve a peaceful resolution to the nuclear issue.

Kawaguchi last visited southern Korea in mid-January.

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