The Red Cross meeting between North Korea and Japan will conclude in Shenyang, northeastern China today.

Delegates from both countries, including Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Foreign Ministry, and Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry,  arrived in Shenyang for two-day Red Cross meeting that started Wednesday, the Kyodo News Agency reported yesterday.

Kyodo added that Ono was expected to hold informal talks with Ryu on the sidelines of the Red Cross meeting. The focus of their talks, which would follow a similar session from March 3 in Shenyang,