Negotiators from Japan, South Korea and the US met today to co-ordinate strategy for talks this month aimed at pressuring North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, after the North’s leader said a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula was his father’s dying wish.

Chelsea boss Claudio Ranieri vowed to ruin Scarborough’s FA Cup fourth round “party” as he insisted that the Blues would be ready for a “big battle” against the non-League side.