US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell (middle) poses with South Korea’s Vice Overseas Minister Kim Hong-kyun (proper) and Japanese Vice Overseas Minister Masataka Okano at Iron Bell Farm in Virginia, on this file photograph taken Could 31 (Yonhap)
Senior diplomats of South Korea, america and Japan will collect in Seoul this week for trilateral talks on methods to additional enhance their partnership, Seoul’s international ministry stated Sunday.
First Vice Overseas Minister Kim Hong-kyun will host US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Japanese Vice Overseas Minister Masataka Okano for the dialogue scheduled for Wednesday, the ministry stated in a launch.
Kim may also maintain separate bilateral talks with Campbell on the identical day and with Okano on Thursday.
The upcoming talks come about 5 months after the three sides held their final assembly in Virginia in Could.
“The three vice ministers could have in-depth discussions on the trilateral coordination for regional and international points, together with the Korean Peninsula situation, and focus on methods for the longer term growth of the South Korea-US-Japan cooperation,” the ministry stated.
The tripartite assembly comes as Seoul and Washington are in search of to additional cement the three-way partnership with Tokyo, particularly with the latest management change in Japan with new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and with the US presidential election lower than a month away.
The leaders of the three international locations declared a brand new chapter of their partnership on the trilateral Camp David summit in August final yr. The summit produced a sequence of agreements, together with the “Dedication to Seek the advice of” one another within the occasion of a shared risk.
Within the Could assembly among the many vice ministers, the three international locations agreed to ascertain a “coordinating physique” to “institutionalize” the trilateral cooperation. (Yonhap)
