Japan, U.S., S. Korea Officials to Meet on N. Korea

Washington, Jan. 13 (Jiji Press)--Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, said Tuesday that the chief representatives of the United States, Japan and South Korea in the so-called six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program will hold a meeting in Tokyo later this month. He revealed the plan at a hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs. The three chief representatives are Kim, Junichi Ihara, director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Hwang Joon-kook, South Korea's special envoy for Korean Peninsula affairs. They are expected to discuss human rights issues in North Korea and cybersecurity. On Jan. 2, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama decide