The top nuclear negotiators of the two Koreas presented views on ways to establish security on the Korean Peninsula at a seminar held in New York on Thursday.

South Korea’s top nuclear envoy, Lim Sung-nam, stressed at the event at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs that the six-way nuclear talks are a useful framework to discuss security not only on the Korean Peninsula but in Northeast Asia as well. He noted that the six-nation talks were first launched in 2003 with the aim of realizing North Korea’s denuclearization.

The North’s top nuclear negotiator, Ri Yong-ho, said during a presentation at the seminar that establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula is an urgent task. He said in order to realize peace, policies hostile toward North Korea should be scrapped.

Results of the closed-door seminar will be announced on Friday.

Lim and Ri also are likely to attend a conference on Saturday organized by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.