Ambassador Park Ro-byug (right), Korea’s chief negotiator for a nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S., shakes hands with his counterpart Thomas Countryman, U.S. assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation, at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Monday, before they start talks on Seoul’s demand for U.S. consent to its plan to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel. (Lee Sang-sub/The Korea Herald)