Kang Kyung-wha Returns Home After Korea-US Foreign Ministers Meeting: "A Fruitful Time" View original image


[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha returned home after holding a series of diplomatic ministerial talks with the United States and Japan in Palo Alto near San Francisco, USA.


On the 16th, Minister Kang met with reporters at Incheon International Airport and said, "It was a productive time," while refraining from detailed comments regarding the series of talks.


The foreign ministers of the three countries?Korea, the US, and Japan?engaged in a hectic diplomatic battle to convey their respective positions on numerous bilateral and trilateral issues during the series of talks held on the 14th (local time) in the US, near Palo Alto, San Francisco.



The Korea-US foreign ministers discussed joint defense issues including the dispatch of troops to the Strait of Hormuz, inter-Korean exchange projects for the Korean Peninsula peace process, and negotiations on the Korea-US defense cost-sharing agreement. The Korea-Japan foreign ministers addressed agenda items such as the South Korean Supreme Court's forced labor ruling and export regulations.


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