Six-party ministers to meet next week on North Korea

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The foreign ministers of the six countries in talks on ending North Korea’s nuclear arms program are expected to hold their first meeting next week at a regional forum in Singapore, a diplomatic source in Seoul said on Friday.

The unprecedented meeting would come as North Korea has released a long-delayed accounting of its murky nuclear plans and the United States has responded by moving to take the communist country off of a State Department terrorism blacklist.

“It is likely that the foreign ministers of the six-party talks (that include the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States) will meet in Singapore,” the source said.

The meeting, tentatively planned for next Wednesday, would likely be an informal gathering that would not result in an agreement, the source said. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said on Friday he wanted his communist neighbor to abandon its atomic ambitions.