i'm patchari raksawong in bangkok. >>> hi there and welcome back. let's take a look at your weather update. we've got two storms to talk about. first of all, let's start with tropical storm muifa headed towards southern islands of japan. it looks like it will be intensifying into a severe tropical storm by sunday morning. it may even become a very strong typhoon. so we do really need to keep track of this system as it heads towards japan. well, here, this is nocks-ten, a tropical storm as of now. it has just made landfall in the hainan island. it will cross over the island and over the gulf of tonkin, make another landfall in northern vietnam. and it will become a tropical depression by sunday night. but it will still bring torrential rain in some parts of the area even up to 300 millimeters or more in the next 48 hours. now, the system will be bringing lots of rain towards southern china around the guangdong province and also taiwan as well. it's going to enhance the southwest monsoon. and so it will bring lots of torrential rain and allows vietnam

patchari raksawong is there with the latest. >> reporter: we saw a significant development regarding the stalemate of the career peninsula. the first between north and south korea between two years and seven months took place at the sidelines of the asean meeting. both countries agreed to work toward restarting the stalled six-party talks. south korean chief negotiator wi sung lac and ri yong ho met for two hours on friday. the last such high-level contact was in december 2008 at six-party talks on the north's nuclear disarmament. the two koreas both agreed to make efforts toward restarting the six-party talks as soon as possible. >> translator: we again verified we are both in mind to fulfill the joint statement of the six-party talks. and try to make efforts for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. we agreed to make efforts toward resumption of the six-party talks as soon as possible. >> translator: the meeting with my counterpart was constructive and useful. we agreed that both of us would try to make efforts to set conditions for the early resumption of the six-party tal