Japan and South Korea agreed yesterday to cooperate in handling the issue regarding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear development, after the meeting of their foreign ministers in Tokyo.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso and his South Korean counterpart Ban Ki-Moon, the next U.N. secretary general, exchanged ideas over the resumption of six-party talks on Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and said that they will work to have the DPRK quit its nuclear plan, according to Kyodo News.

The two countries also said that they will cooperate on the implementation of the U.N. Security Council resolution over the DPRK.

Ban, who is on a two-day visit to Japan, is expected to meet with Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe on Monday.

The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution in mid-October on the nuclear test conducted by the DPRK. On Wednesday, the DPRK said that it decided to return to the six-party talks "on the premise that the issue of lifting financial sanctions will be discussed and settled between the DPRK and the U.S. within the framework of the six-party talks."

The six-party talks on the Korean Peninsular nuclear issue, which involves the DPRK, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States, were last held in November, 2005.