Six-Party Talks on Peace Regime Due in Moscow
By Jung Sung-ki
Staff Reporter
A new round of six-party working group talks on the establishment of a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula is expected to be held next month in Moscow, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday.
The expectation comes with reports that Russia's chief nuclear negotiator, Alexander Losyukov, is visiting Pyongyang.
The peace regime working group is one of the five working groups which the United States, the two Koreas, China, Japan and Russia agreed to create in 2007 to resolve the deadlock over the North's nuclearization issue.
Since then, two rounds of working-level talks on the peace mechanism to replace the truce on the peninsula have been held.
Seoul officials expect the third round of talks to be held from Feb. 19 to Feb. 20.
South and North Korea remain technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a ceasefire, not a permanent peace treaty.