US and South Korea Foreign Ministers Discuss Declaration of End to War and North Korea Nuclear Issues at Rome Meeting

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo In-ho] South Korea and the United States will hold a foreign ministers' meeting on the 31st in Rome, Italy, where the Group of Twenty (G20) summit is taking place, to discuss the declaration of the end of the war and North Korea's nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 31st, Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a meeting in Rome at 11:30 a.m. local time (7:30 p.m. Korean time) on the same day.

Initially, both sides planned to hold the meeting the previous day, but due to delays in the G20 plenary session and other circumstances, the schedule was postponed by one day and readjusted.

Minister Chung and Secretary Blinken will meet face-to-face again less than a month after a brief meeting in Paris, France, where they attended the OECD Ministerial Council on the 5th of this month.

Including the meeting held in New York during the United Nations General Assembly in September, this will be their third face-to-face meeting within about 40 days.

South Korea and the U.S. have been maintaining active contacts at various levels, including foreign ministers, to discuss issues related to the Korean Peninsula and bilateral matters.

Regarding the declaration of the end of the war proposed by South Korea as a way to resume dialogue with North Korea, since South Korea and the U.S. are still coordinating specific methodologies, related discussions are likely to continue at this meeting as well.

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