Korea-US-Japan Deputy Foreign Ministers to Meet Next Week in the US

Choi Jong-geon, First Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Korea (center), Wendy Sherman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (right), and Takeo Mori, Administrative Vice Minister of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held a joint press conference after the trilateral foreign vice ministers' meeting at the Ikura Diplomatic Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo, Japan, on the morning of July 21. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] The deputy foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States, and Japan are expected to meet next week in the United States.

Choi Jong-geon, First Vice Foreign Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will visit the United States from the 14th to the 20th of this month to meet with Wendy Sherman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and Takeo Mori, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 12th. Vice Minister Choi will depart on the morning of the 14th and hold a South Korea-U.S. deputy foreign ministers' meeting with Deputy Secretary Sherman on the 16th (local time), followed by attending the South Korea-U.S.-Japan deputy foreign ministers' consultation the next day.

During the visit, he is also scheduled to hold a South Korea-Japan deputy foreign ministers' meeting with Vice Minister Mori. This will be the first meeting and consultation among the South Korea-U.S.-Japan deputy foreign ministers in about four months since last July. The agenda is likely to include key issues of the Biden administration such as global supply chain restructuring, China containment, and North Korea policy.

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