Envoys meet on strategy for North Korean arms talks

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.

North Korea agreed on Saturday to end a 13-month boycott of the talks, after being assured by the chief US nuclear envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, that Washington recognised its sovereignty.