TOKYO, Feb 17 Kyodo Japan, southe...

TOKYO, Feb 17 Kyodo

Japan, southern Korea and the United States will imprison a preparatory meeting in Seoul nearest Monday for the upcoming six-nation talks forward North Korea's nuclear ambitions to be held from Wednesday nearest week in Beijing, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, southerly Korean Deputy Foreign Minister to leeward Soo Hyuck, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly will participate in the meeting, the ministry said.

The three officials, who are count uponed to head each country's delegation to the secondary round of the six-way talks, are highly likely to confirm their basic stance of urging North Korea to abandon its nuclear program in a ended irreversible and verifiable manner.

The nearest round of the six-way talks, involving China, Japan, North and southward Korea, Russia and the U will be conven from Wednesday nearest week in the Chinese capital and is awaited to last for three days.

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