Japan to Raise North Korea Nuclear Issue at G-8

Japan plans to raise North Korea’s nuclear development at next week’s meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations, Deputy Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka said today (see GSN, June 24).

“The present situation is very worrisome and it is a matter of course that this issue will be discussed,” said Yabunaka, Japan’s representative for the summit (Reuters/Yahoo!News, June 27).

Meanwhile, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Saturday called on North Korea to resume disarmament talks, Agence France-Presse reported.

“The biggest threat to peace on the Korean Peninsula is the North Korean nuclear problem,” said Roh (Agence France-Presse, June 25).

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young, Seoul’s lead official on the nuclear issue, is scheduled to meet with U.S. officials in Washington starting Wednesday, the Associated Press reported (Associated Press/USA Today, June 27).

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may visit China, Japan and South Korea next month to discuss a possible resumption of six-party talks on the North Korea nuclear issue, U.S. sources told the Daily Yomiuri on Thursday (Daily Yomiuri, June 25).

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