South Korea's chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac will visit Beijing this week for talks with his Chinese counterpart on North Korea's atomic programs, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
South Korea
's
chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac will visit
Beijing
this
week for talks with his Chinese counterpart on
North
Korea
's atomic programs, the
foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Wi will meet Wu Dawei on Thursday, the first day of his two-day visit.
"The two will exchange ideas on a wide range of issues including the
current situation of the North's nuclear programs and future responses,"
the ministry said in a statement, without elaborating.
China
's
push to restart stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, and the North's
recent disclosure of a uranium enrichment program, are expected to be high on
the agenda.
Pyongyang
last November showed off the
new program to visiting
U.S.
experts. It says the plant will be part of a peaceful nuclear power project,
but experts say it could easily be reconfigured to produce material for atomic
weapons.
South Korea
is
trying to refer the uranium issue to the U.N. Security Council, which ordered
the North to shut down all atomic activities following two tests of plutonium
bombs.
China
, the
North's ally and a veto-wielding Council member, hasn't said whether it would
support a referral.
But President Hu Jintao, at a summit last month with
U.S.
leader Barack Obama, expressed concern at the claimed uranium program.
The six-nation talks grouping
China
, the
U.S.
, the
two
Koreas
,
Russia
and
Japan
, have
been in stasis since December 2008.
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