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U.S. envoy for the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Glyn Davies arrived in Seoul Thursday night to discuss ways to resume the long-stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading the DPRK to give up its nuclear weapons program, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said.
After ending his three-day visit to Beijing, Davies arrived here Thursday night. The U.S. special representative for the DPRK policy paid a courtesy call to South Korea's vice foreign minister Friday morning before meeting with Seoul's vice unification minister.
Davies will hold a meeting with Cho Tae-yong, who represents South Korea at the six-way dialogue in the afternoon to discuss how to resume the long-suspended six-party talks, including the two Koreas, China, the United States, Japan and Russia, according to the foreign ministry.
Cho and Davies are widely expected to seek to narrow the differing terms for resuming the disarmament-for-aid dialogue. The six-party talks, initiated in Beijing in Aug. 2003, have been suspended since Dec. 2008.
After talks in Washington early this month, envoys from the United States, South Korea and Japan agreed not to restart the six- way dialogue until the DPRK shows its commitment to giving up its nuclear program.
The DPRK, China and Russia, the other parties at the six-party talks, have been calling for prompt resumption of the talks without any strings attached.
Davies said in Beijing on Thursday after meeting with China's special representative for Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei that "good progress" was made at the meeting, describing their discussion as "constructive and tense."
This was the second meeting between Davies and Wu in less than a month following a meeting in Washington. Earlier this month, Wu paid a visit to the DPRK.
