People watch a TV showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a military parade held in Pyongyang, North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

       TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Senior diplomats from Japan, the United States and South Korea will meet in Tokyo on Tuesday to discuss ways to resume denuclearization negotiations between the United States and North Korea, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.

       They will also compare notes on the latest situation in North Korea, the ministry said Friday, a day after the country staged a military parade in Pyongyang to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the North's founding.

       The meeting will bring together Takehiro Funakoshi, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea, and Noh Kyu Duk, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs.

       Funakoshi, Kim and Noh plan to hold bilateral talks on the fringes of the three-way meeting, according to government sources.

       The trilateral meeting was last held in June in Seoul.

       In late April, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration said it completed a months-long review of North Korea policy that calls for "calibrated and practical" diplomacy aimed at increasing the security of the United States and its allies.

       U.S.-North Korea denuclearization talks have been stalled as they have fallen short of bridging the gap between Washington's push for complete denuclearization and Pyongyang's calls for sanctions relief.

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