SEOUL, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A meeting in Seoul between U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan on North Korea was announced Monday.
"The three-way talks are aimed at fine-tuning countermeasures against North Korea's claim of a nuclear test and (to) find ways of resuming the six-way talks," a South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
The meeting follows the United Nations Security Council's unanimous adoption Saturday of a resolution calling for all U.N. members to impose wide-ranging economic and diplomatic sanctions on North Korea over the underground nuclear test it said it carried out on Oct. 9, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
Diplomatic communication has been almost constant since the explosion, which has not been ruled out as a conventional weapons blast.
Sunday night, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun discussed ways of resolving the nuclear issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin in telephone talks, the Korea Times reported.
