Senior diplomats of South Korea and France agreed on Tuesday to intensify coordination against North Korea's nuclear threats in order to resolve the current stalemate through peaceful methods, the foreign ministry here said Tuesday.

The agreement was made at a meeting held in Seoul between Lee Do-hoon, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, and his French counterpart Nicolas de Riviere, according to the ministry.

"The two voiced concerns over the current situations in which North Korea has been upgrading its nuclear and missile programs through repeated provocations including this year's sixth nuclear test and the latest ballistic missile test on Nov. 29," the ministry said in a press release.