SEOUL April 29 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

SEOUL April 29 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

southern Korea said Thursday the upcoming first rotund of working-level talks in succession North Korea's nuclear program will likely focus upon ways to implement U.S. requirements for freezing the program.

Parties to the talks announced Thursday that they will get back to the negotiating table in succession May 12 in Beijing to plain the way for the nearest round of formal negotiations.

southerly Korean Deputy Foreign Minister leeward Soo Hyuck told reporters that the main agenda item will be finding a way to be congealed the North's nuclear program based in succession the principle of complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement initiated at the United States, according to southern Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

''The talks will likely discuss mainly the CVID (complete verifiable and irreversible dismantling) issue,'' to leeward said.

The six countries -- also including China, Japan, Russia and the U -- agreed at the inferior round of talks in late February in Beijing to station up the preparatory working cluster and hold the third rotund by the end of June

side sheltered from the wind said the deputy representatives for the talks in February will conduce to as chief officials for the working-level meeting, according to Yonhap.

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