The Japanese and U.S. envoys on North Korean nuclear issues will discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula in Tokyo next week, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Kenji Kanasugi, director general of the ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, will
hold a meeting on Tuesday with Joseph Yun, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, the ministry said.
Japan and the United States have repeatedly agreed to maximize diplomatic pressure on North Korea in order to make it abandon its nuclear program.
Kanasugi and Yun are their countries' delegates to the suspended six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization. The talks, also involving the two Koreas, China and Russia, have been stalled since late 2008.