South Korea, China and Japan will hold a trilateral foreign ministers’ meeting in Kyoto on Saturday.

Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, Takeaki Matsumoto of Japan and Yang Jiechi of China plan to discuss ways to enhance cooperation on tackling natural disasters while expressing condolences for the massive quake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan.

The three ministers will also focus discussions on nuclear safety, particularly on ways to jointly address the radiation leakage in Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The ministers will also coordinate the agenda for their nations' trilateral summit set for May and discuss the North Korean nuclear issue along with other issues surrounding Northeast Asia.

Attention is being drawn to whether the trilateral meeting will yield agreements on ways to address Pyongyang’s uranium enrichment program and on resuming the stalled six-way nuclear talks.

Saturday’s meeting is the fifth of its kind to be held. The first such meeting was held on South Korea’s Jeju Island in June 2007