South Korea Dispatches Its Top Nuclear Negotiator to China
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South Korea sent its chief negotiator on the North’s nuclear program to Beijing to discuss how the death of Kim Jong Il affects international efforts to reverse the reclusive regime’s atomic weapons program.
Lim Sung Nam, the government’s special representative for disarmament talks, will be in the Chinese capital today and tomorrow to meet his counterpart Wu Dawei, the foreign ministry in Seoul said in a statement. The two will “evaluate the situation on the Korean peninsula following Kim Jong Il’s death and discuss the direction of future plans for the North Korean nuclear issue.”