The chief nuclear negotiators of South Korea, the United States and Japan to the six-party talks will meet here Saturday to discuss strategies on how to reopen themultilateral talks, reported South Korean Yonhap News Agency.

Participants in the meeting will be South Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon, US Assistant Secretary of State-designate Christopher Hill and Kenichiro Sasae, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asia-Oceania Bureau, Yonhap quoted a source of the South Koran government as reporting.

The three countries have usually met for such a strategy consultations to coordinate their standings on the nuclear issue.

Since August 2003, China, the United States, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Russia, South Korea and Japan have held three rounds of talks in Beijing aimed at peacefully resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang refused to attend the fourth round scheduled for last September, citing hostile US policy.

Source: Xinhua