World IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : U.S., S. Korea Hold Talks About North

Senior officials from the United States and South Korea held unannounced meetings in Honolulu for two days this week in search of updated policies toward a changing North Korea, Administration officials said in Washington. The meetings involved a U.S. team headed by Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and including State Department, National Security Council and military officials, and a similar South Korean team headed by Kim Jong Whie, national security adviser to President Roh Tae Woo. U.S. sources said the status of American nuclear weapons in South Korea was among the topics that the U.S. team was prepared to discuss, though they rebutted speculation in South Korean news media that this was intended to be the principal focus of the meetings. The question of whether to withdraw U.S. nuclear weapons from the South was among the issues considered in an internal Administration policy review toward North Korea that began earlier this year.