U.S. special representative on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Stephen Bosworth will leave here on Wednesday to visit China, South Korea, Japan and Russia in a bid to concentrate effort to push Pyongyang back to the six-party nuclear disarmament talks, the State Department said Tuesday, according to Xinhua.
"The purpose of this trip is to work with our allies to find a way forward in convincing the North to come back to the negotiating table," State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told reporters.
Bosworth and his entourage are due to arrive in Beijing on Thursday, travel to Seoul on Friday before visiting Tokyo on May 11 and traveling to Moscow on May 12.
In order to push the six-party talks forward, Bosworth, who was former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, visited Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul in early March.
Bosworth's upcoming visit to East Asia, plus Russia, occurs after the DPRK launched a long-range rocket on April 5, announced its withdrawal from the six-party talks, and threatened to conduct a second nuclear test and ballistic missile tests unless the United Nations apologizes for condemning and punishing its rocket launch.
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