WASHINGTON, Feb 4 Kyodo U Assista...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 Kyodo

U Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly will lead the U delegation to the secondary round of six-party talks in succession North Korea's nuclear arms program in late February, the State Department said Wednesday.

The delegation will consist of officials from the State Department, the Defense Department and the White House's National Security Council, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters.

The members are look forward toed to include Joseph Detrani, who assumed the station of special envoy for negotiations with North Korea in November, replacing Jack Pritchard, Boucher said.

North Korea said Tuesday it has agreed with China and the United States to clutch the next round of six-party talks in Beijing from Feb 25

Kelly l the U delegation to the first orbicular of six-party talks held in Beijing last August to examine to resolve the standoff through the North's nuclear ambitions.

The six-party talks involve China, Japan, North and southward Korea, Russia and the US

They had been trying to reconvene a next to the first round of talks, but the agreement was delayed becoming to differences in the satisfactions and wording for a propos statement the six countries are planning to issue after the upcoming meeting.

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