SEOUL,SOUTH KOREA: Foreign Minister Han Sungjoo will visit Washington next week to discuss North Korea’s withdrawal from an international nuclear control pact, officials said Sunday.

Pyongyang’s surprise withdrawal from the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty on Friday has reinforced suspicions that the Communist North is developing atomic weapons.

Han will meet with Secretary of State Warren Chnstopher during the week of March 2127 to plan joint diplomatic measures to defuse tensions over the North’s nuclear program.

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