US State Department: "Pompeo to Meet with South Korean and Japanese Ministers Next Week in San Francisco"

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Hyeon-jin] U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with his counterparts from Korea and Japan next week in San Francisco, the U.S. Department of State announced on the 9th (local time).

In a press release issued under the name of spokesperson Morgan Ortagus, the State Department stated that Secretary Pompeo is scheduled to visit the San Francisco Bay Area from the 12th to the 15th. There was no mention of the specific dates of the meetings, nor was there any separate mention of the format of the talks, such as trilateral Korea-U.S.-Japan, bilateral Korea-U.S., or U.S.-Japan meetings.

The State Department also announced that Secretary Pompeo will deliver a speech at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and will also speak to members of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group of the California Commonwealth Club.

This announcement officially confirms that Secretary Pompeo will hold talks next week with Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha of Korea and Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu of Japan.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kim Yeon-cheol said at a regular briefing on the 9th Korea time that Minister Kang and Secretary Pompeo will hold talks on the 14th in San Francisco. The Korea-U.S. foreign ministers' meeting is the first in about nine months since it was held in late March last year in Washington, D.C.

During this period, it is also known that Foreign Minister Motegi will visit San Francisco, raising the possibility of Korea-Japan and Korea-U.S.-Japan foreign ministers' meetings.

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