U.S., South Korean and Japanese nuclear envoys have met in Seoul for talks on North Korea amid signs the isolated country is preparing to conduct a nuclear test for the first time since 2017.
U.S. Special Representative, Sung Kim met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts, Kim Gunn and, Funakoshi Takehiro, after a U.S. assessment that the North was preparing its Punggye-ri test site for what would be its seventh nuclear test.
Last week, the United States called for more U.N. sanctions on North Korea over its ballistic missile launches, but China and Russia vetoed the suggestion, publicly splitting the U.N. Security Council on North Korea for the first time since it started punishing it in 2006, when it conducted its first nuclear test.
