Japan's nuclear envoy Junichi Ihara has gone on record saying Tokyo wants to continue to working closely with Seoul towards the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

 

　　Japan's chief envoy to the six-party talks has made the comments while meeting with his South Korean counterpart in Seoul to discuss the potential of resuming talks with North Korea.

 

　　"We have already achieved lots of good cooperation and results, so I really want to continue to work with you so that we can finally attain the ultimate objective of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."

 

　　The six-party talks, which involving the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and host China, collapsed in 2008 when the North walked out.

 

　　The United States is on-record saying any talks first have to involve action by the North to show it is serious about moving toward disarmament.