The Foreign Ministry is set to downsize and revamp an office in charge of diplomacy related to North Korean nuclear issues amid a prolonged stalemate in dialogue with Pyongyang. The Office of Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, led by a vice ministerial level official, was established 18 years ago in a whirlwind of nuclear diplomacy with the North through six-party talks among the two Koreas, the US, China, .
The Foreign Ministry is set to downsize and revamp an office in charge of diplomacy related to North Korean nuclear issues amid a prolonged stalemate in dialogue with Pyongyang. The Office of Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, led by a vice ministerial level official, was established 18 years ago in a whirlwind of nuclear diplomacy with the North through six-party talks among the two Koreas, the US, China, .
South Korea s top nuclear envoy on Thursday met with the U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea s human rights issues to discuss the repatriation of defectors and other pending issues, Seoul s foreign ministry said Thursday.
South Korea has deplored North Korea s ongoing missile provocation at a regional security conference that has served as a venue for dialogue among the members of the six-party talks on Pyongyang s nuclear program, Seoul s foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Senior diplomats of South Korea and the United States held consultations on North Korea s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) development and the country s human rights conditions, Seoul s foreign ministry said Monday.