SEOUL, March 13 (UPI) -- South Korea will chair the first session of a six-way working group on energy and economic aid for North Korea this week, Seoul officials said Tuesday.
The meeting, which involves the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, China and Russia, would be held at the South Korean Embassy in Beijing Thursday, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said in a press release.
The meeting would be chaired by South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Chun Yung-woo. North Korea is expected to be represented by one of its delegates to the United Nations, Kim Myong Kil, officials said.
The group is one of five created as part of a deal reached at the six-nation talks last month on ending North Korea's nuclear drive.
Under the Feb. 13 deal, the communist North agreed to shut down and seal its plutonium-producing reactor at Yongbyon within 60 days and admit U.N. nuclear inspectors in exchange for badly-needed energy and economic assistance.
