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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: US, regional powers may meet on NKorea next month By KWANGTAE KIM,Associated Press Writer AP - Sunday, June 21 SEOUL, South Korea - The U.S. and North Korea's neighbors may meet soon to find a new way to deal with the communist regime after it snubbed formal talks on ending its nuclear program, conducted an atomic test and threatened war in response to U.N. sanctions, an official said Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT South Korea has proposed the talks with four other nations that have been trying to negotiate an end to the North's nuclear program for years. The U.S. and Japan have agreed to participate, while China and Russia have yet to respond, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official told The Associated Press. He said it remains to be seen where or when the meeting _ if it materializes _ will take place, but one possibility is on the sidelines of a regional security forum scheduled in Phuket, Thailand in July. "We have to see how things will play out," said the official, requesting anonymity because he was discussing a plan still in the works. North Korea and the five countries began negotiating under the so-called "six-party talks" in 2003 with the aim of giving the communist regime economic aid and other concessions in exchange for dismantling its nuclear program. The last round of talks was held in December 2008, when negotiations became deadlocked. In April this year, North Korea announced it would no longer participate in the talks. The official said the North could be approached for talks, as they are scheduled to attend the Phuket meeting. The communist nation has little interaction with the world, but it does attend the ASEAN Regional Forum, or ARF, an annual Asia-Pacific security dialogue. Pyongyang has vowed to bolster its nuclear arsenal and threatened war to protest sanctions imposed by the U.N. after its nuclear test on May 25. It also test-fired a ballistic missile and is reportedly preparing for another long-range missile launch and a third nuclear test. The provocations appear to be partly aimed at strengthening the North's internal unity as its ailing leader Kim Jong Il prepares to hand over power to his youngest son, Kim Jong Un. Japan's Mainichi newspaper reported Saturday that Jong Un is working as the acting chairman of the nation's National Defense Commission, reinforcing his position as the successor. The 26-year-old is supporting his father, who is chairman of the commission, the country's highest post. "He is focusing on the job as acting chairman. If something happens to our general, he will automatically take the chairman's position," the report quoted a source close to the North Korean leadership as saying. On Saturday, the regime unleashed a fresh round of threats against the sanctions in what has become an almost daily dose of condemnation, transmitted through its official media. "The implementation of sanctions means war," North Korea's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. It also warned of a "merciless retaliatory strike" against South Korea if Seoul tries to infringe on the North's sovereignty in the pretext of implementing sanctions. Soldiers, officials and others have also held days of rallies across North Korea to denounce the U.N. resolution and vowed to fight against the U.S. They dismissed the resolution as "illegal brigandish hostile acts of the U.S. and its followers to isolate and stifle" the North, KCNA said. The Foreign Ministry official said that South Korean President Lee Myung-bak had floated the idea of bringing together officials of the five countries during his summit with President Barack Obama at the White House this past week. But he cautioned that the envisioned meeting was in the preliminary planning stages and it was still not clear whether nuclear envoys or foreign ministers would participate. Officials at Japan's foreign ministry could not be reached for comment Saturday. A spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry press department said there is no official information so far. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Beijing has not heard about any arrangements for the meeting. Last year, then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun and their counterparts from the four other nations on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Singapore. Rice later held a brief one-on-one exchange with Pak. South Korea's Defense Ministry said U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy will visit Seoul on Friday for talks with South Korean officials. It gave no further details. ___ Associated Press writers Henry Sanderson in Beijing, Leonid Chizhov in Moscow and Shino Yuasa in Tokyo contributed to this report. 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