(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-05-06 23:50

WASHINGTON  -- A United States State Department official is due to hold meetings with officials of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Pyongyang on Thursday, the State Department said Tuesday.

Sung Kim, director of the Korea Office at the State Department, "will have some meetings as follow-up discussions to the ones he had previously, ...(on) Thursday in Pyongyang," State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack told reporters.

Kim held talks with DPRK officials in Pyongyang on April 22 on how to verify any declaration the DPRK may make about its nuclear programs.

Under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in Beijing in February last year, the DPRK agreed to abandon all nuclear weapons and programs and declare all its nuclear programs and facilities by the end of 2007, in exchange for diplomatic and economic incentives.

However, the DPRK missed the deadline despite reported progress in its nuclear disablement and declaration.

The US has urged the country to fully declare its nuclear programs and activities.