South Korea plans to do its best to achieve "meaningful" progress for the resumption of the long-stalled six-party talks aimed at denuclearizing North Korea, the foreign minister said Tuesday.
  

The remarks by Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se came as a flurry of diplomatic efforts by five countries to the six-party talks -- South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia -- are under way to explore ways to reopen the denuclearization talks that have been dormant since late 2008.
  

"Seoul plans to make meaningful progress for the denuclearization of North Korea. Consensus is building that this issue should be promptly resolved," Yun told a forum in Seoul.

Yun said that except for North Korea, the other five countries are narrowing their opinions about conditions for the resumption of the six-party talks to a considerable extent.
 

"I believe if Iran's nuclear talks are concluded by a June deadline, they could have a positive effect on North Korea's denuclearization talks," he added.
  

His remarks came as South Korea's top nuclear envoy Hwang Joon-kook started his three-day visit to Moscow on Monday to hold talks with his Russian counterpart Morgulov Igor.
  

Hwang and his counterparts from Washington and Tokyo held talks in Japan last month and the Korean envoy also held talks with China's top nuke negotiator Wu Dawei earlier this month.
  

North Korea has demanded the resumption of the six-party talks without conditions, but Seoul and Washington have said that the North should first demonstrate its seriousness about denuclearization. (Yonhap)