SEOUL, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- South Korea's diplomatic chief will visit Washington this week to discuss how to follow up the nuclear deal with North Korea, Seoul officials said Monday.
During his three-day trip which starts Thursday, Foreign Minister Song Min-soon will meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. officials, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry.
Under the Feb. 13 nuclear accord, South Korea the United States, along with China, Russia and Japan, promised to provide massive energy aid to communist North Korea in return for dismantling its nuclear facilities.
Song's U.S. trip coincides with a visit by North Korea's top nuclear envoy, Kim Kye Gwan, who is to arrive in New York for talks on implementing the nuclear deal.
Song will also travel to Moscow next Monday to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov for talks largely focused on North Korea.
