PHUKET, Thailand (Kyodo) Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone met Wednesday with his Thai counterpart, Kasit Piromya, and stressed the need to steadily implement a new U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at punishing North Korea for its nuclear test in May, the Foreign Ministry said.
The two ministers also signed a bilateral treaty on prisoner transfers to allow inmates to serve out their sentences in their home countries, the ministry said.
The 15-minute meeting was held on the sidelines of talks involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and their dialogue partners on the Thai resort island of Phuket. Thailand is now serving as the chair of ASEAN.