U.S. envoy meets S Korean senior officials on DPRK issues

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) policies, met with South Korean senior officials Saturday to coordinate stance on the nuclear issue on the Korea Peninsula.

U.S. special envoy to DPRK, Stephen Bosworth (front), and Sung Kim, top U.S. nuclear negotiator, leave after their meeting with South Korean nuclear envoy to DPRK, Wi Sung-lac, at the foreign ministry in Seoul September 5, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Bosworth and South Korea's top nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac assessed Pyongyang's recent moves on its nuclear weapons program and its demands for lifting sanctions and holding DPRK-U.S. dialogue, and reviewed a joint response to Pyongyang's so-called "two-track" tactic, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency quoted government sources as saying.

In a letter to the president of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday, the DPRK claimed that the reprocessing of spent fuel rods "is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponized."

The letter, sent by the permanent representative of the DPRK to the United Nations, also said the "experimental uranium enrichment has successfully been conducted to enter into the completion phase."