Russia to hold nuclear talks with North Korea Russian officials in Moscow will meet North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator next week in a bid to get Pyongyang to re-join protracted talks over ending its atomic programme, Russia’s state news agency reported.
Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea’s First Deputy Foreign Minister, would meet Russia’s deputy foreign ministers Vladimir Titov and Igor Morgulov on Thursday “as part of efforts to resume the six-party talks”, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on Saturday.
The isolated Asian state recently warned that hostility by the United States could lead to war with South Korea at any moment, and vowed not to give up its nuclear power in the face of mounting UN and international sanctions following recent tests. North Korea had also walked out of the discussions with South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and its main ally China in 2009 in reaction to UN sanctions. But in a flurry of statements and visits this month, North Korea has offered to hold talks with the United States to ease tensions.