G-7 ministers aim for complete Korean denuclearization in UK talks

Blinken briefs fellow top diplomats on new US approach to Pyongyang

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Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, left, speaks with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in London on May 4. © Kyodo

JUNNOSUKE KOBARA and YUSUKE NAKAJIMA, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO/LONDON -- Top diplomats from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations opened a three-day summit in London by agreeing to pursue the "complete, verifiable and irreversible" end to all development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles by North Korea, according to Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.

The ministers discussed North Korea at a working dinner held Monday local time, Motegi later told reporters.

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