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	US envoy to visit SKorea, Japan (AFP)
	WASHINGTON (AFP) – A senior US diplomat will travel to South Korea and Japan next week to discuss negotiations aimed at disarming North Korea's weapons-grade nuclear programs, the State Department said Friday. Sung Kim, the department's Korea office director, will visit South Korea's Jeju island from Monday through Wednesday for the United Nations-Republic of Korea Joint Conference on Disarmament and Nonproliferation Issues, it said. "He will meet with South Korean officials on the margins of that conference," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told the daily press briefing in Washington. The spokesman expected Kim and his South Korean counterparts to discuss the six-party nuclear disarmament talks involving the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan. "They'll talk about verification issues and the hoped-for next head of delegation meeting which is yet to be announced," McCormack said. But he said he was not aware of any North Korean officials who would be at the meeting. A senior US official said the United States will urge China at weekend talks in Peru to host a new meeting of the six-party negotiations on North Korea. The main US goal was to resume negotiations in order to agree on a protocol for verifying North Korea's nuclear disarmament, said Dennis Wilder, senior director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. Washington last month removed North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism saying Pyongyang had agreed to steps to verify its nuclear disarmament and pledged to resume the disabling of its atomic plants. But nations involved in six-party talks have yet to endorse a full-fledged verification protocol. McCormack added Kim will travel from South Korea to Tokyo on November 27 for consultations with Japanese officials. His trip ends November 28. "And he has no plans to meet with North Korean officials or to travel to North Korea on this trip," which involves him giving up the national Thanksgiving holiday, McCormack added. Taken from here