Seoul and Paris agreed Tuesday to hold a meeting aimed at discussing the issue of North Korea's nuclear program, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said.
SEOUL (Sputnik) – According to the Yonhap news agency, citing the ministry, South Korea's top nuclear envoy Kim Hong-kyun and Political Director of the French Foreign Ministry Nicolas de Riviere held a phone conversation Tuesday, resulting in an agreement to hold high-level consultative negotiations to discuss the possible ways of dealing with the North Korean issue.
No specific date of the meeting had been announced to date, the media reported.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula intensified in September after Pyongyang claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear warhead, having previously detonated a hydrogen bomb in January.
The September 9 test is believed to be the fifth and largest blast since Pyongyang began pursuing nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The UN Security Council condemned it as a repeated violation of its resolutions.
On October 14, North Korea reportedly carried out a failed test of the Musadan intermediate-range ballistic missile near the northwestern city of Kusong.
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