Russia, Japan call for early talks on DPRK nuclear issue

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Russia, Japan call for early talks on DPRK nuclear issue

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Russia and Japan want the second round of six-nation talks on settling the dispute surrounding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) nuclear program to be held in February, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said on Monday.

"We in general exchanged our views on ways to settle the situation on the Korean Peninsula, and expressed our support for continuing the negotiating process and holding the second round of six-nation talks," Losyukov said following consultations with Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka in Moscow.

"My Japanese colleagues... agreed that the new round of the six-sided talks should be held in February," Losyukov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.

Russia, Japan along with China, the DPRK, South Korea and the United States held their first round of talks last August in Beijing on Pyongyang's nuclear program. Due to sharp differences between the US and the DPRK, the second round of talks, originally scheduled for last December, was postponed.

The crisis over the DPRK's alleged nuclear program broke out in October 2002 when Washington said Pyongyang had admitted running asecret nuclear program in breach of a 1994 bilateral accord.

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