WASHINGTON — A U.S. envoy will hold talks with North Korea on its nuclear program in Beijing next week.
Glyn Davies, the U.S. envoy on North Korea, will meet Feb. 23 with North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Monday.
It will be the third round of these bilateral talks since last summer, which are aimed at restarting aid-for-disarmament negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear program. North Korea pulled out of the multi-nation talks in 2009.
This meeting will be the first since Kim Jong Il died Dec. 17.