Special Representative of the U.S. government on North Korea Stephen Bosworth will lead the talks with Deputy Prime Minister of North Korea Kim Ki-Kwan, said the State Department. "We're not ready to negotiate for the sake of talks", – said State Department spokesman Mark Toner. "What we are looking at these talks is to determine whether North Korea is ready to fulfill their obligations", – he added. According to him, the U.S. was only involved in the "preliminary" talks. Last week, U.S. Secretary of State confirmed the rumors appear before that a senior North Korean diplomat to visit U.S. for talks. On Sunday morning about the forthcoming visit of South Korean news agency reported Yonhap citing "multiple sources in diplomatic circles." Earlier, the Indonesian island of Bali in the forum ASEAN meeting of foreign ministers of South Korea Kim Sung-hwan and North Korea's Pak Ui Chun. The previous meeting of foreign ministers was held in Singapore in the summer of 2008. On Friday at the sidelines of the summit meeting of representatives of South Korea and the DPRK, which discussed the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The result of these contacts was a statement of the efforts on both sides for an early resumption of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program. South Korea, the United States and China, which traditionally hosts a delegation of "six", came the idea to launch a three-phase process to resume negotiations. The first step is a joint consultation will be expected to emissaries of Seoul, Pyongyang and Washington. North Korea withdrew from the negotiations over two years ago, but last year announced a desire to resume consultations. After that the two countries were actually on the verge of military conflict: the tension surged in March last year in connection with the sinking of the northerners Korean corvette "Cheonan," and then in November, when North Korea fired a massive artillery bombardment Enphendo island.
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