Aso mengatakan bahwa perundingan mengenai perlucutan senjata nuklir Korea Utara dapat dilakukan kembali pada dua pekan pertama di bulan Febuari, secepatnya, menurut Jiji Press.
Aso said that the negotiations to disband North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes should be reopened in the first two weeks of February, at the earliest, according to Jiji Press.