SEOUL - Top nuclear envoys of Repulic of Korea(ROK) and the Democratic People's Republicof Korea (DPRK) will meet next week in Beijing for talks over denuclearization, Seoul's foreignministry said Friday.
The meeting will be the second such inter-Korean dialogue following the rare talks in Julybetween Seoul's Wi Sung-lac and Pyongyang's Ri Yong-ho on the sidelines of a regionalsecurity forum in Indonesia.
ROKchief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac will leave for Beijing next Tuesday, the foreign ministryhere said, but adding the two sides are still scheduling the meeting.
At the meeting in Bali, Indonesia, the first such meeting in two years, the top envoys agreed tofurther their efforts to resume the long-stalled six-party talks aimed at dismantling Pyongyang'snuclear program. The talks were last held in December 2008.
Following the Bali meeting, DPRK Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye- gwan traveled to New York fortalks with his US counterpart Stephen Bosworth, raising hopes nuclear negotiations mightresume soon.
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