Foreign ministry officials from Japan and North Korea will hold two days of talks in Pyongyang beginning Aug. 25, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
The talks between officials at the director general level, also announced in Pyongyang by the official Korean Central News Agency, were agreed to during a meeting July 31 in Brunei between Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun.
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