TOKYO (Sputnik) — North Korea declared itself a nuclear power in 2005 and has since tested several nuclear weapons, triggering international condemnation.
14 June 2015, 06:58 GMT
The three-party talks in the Japanese capital will focus on the recent events to the north of the border barrier. The allies will reaffirm their commitment to working together on the nuclear issue, the ministry said in a statement.
In 2003, Pyongyang joined negotiations on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula with the United States, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea, after it withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that it ratified in 1985.
But the talks ground to a halt soon after the North tested its second nuclear weapon in 2009, and have been stalled ever since.
