Japan, the United States and South Korea will hold high-level talks Saturday in Tokyo on whether to continue a project to build light-water reactors in North Korea, now that Pyongyang has admitted it has been working to develop atomic weapons in defiance of its pledge not to do so.
The Foreign Ministry said Thursday that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly and South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Tae Sik will hold talks Saturday with Hitoshi Tanaka, head of the ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.
The meeting, called the Trilateral Coordination and Oversight Group, is held regularly to coordinate policy toward North Korean among the three countries.