Trilateral North Korea Nuclear Representatives from Korea, US, and Japan to Discuss North Korean Missiles on the 10th in Honolulu, US

Noh Kyu-duk, Director General for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Sung Kim, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea, held a consultation on North Korea's nuclear issue on the morning of the 24th at the Lotte Hotel in Sogong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul. Kim is speaking during the doorstepping immediately after the consultation. Photo by Joint Press Corps

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Amid ongoing North Korean military provocations this year, the senior nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States, and Japan will meet in the U.S. on the 10th for consultations.

On the 7th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Noh Kyu-duk, Director-General for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, will hold consultations with Sung Kim, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea, and Takehiro Funakoshi, Director-General of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Honolulu, U.S., on the 10th as part of the South Korea-U.S., South Korea-Japan, and South Korea-U.S.-Japan senior nuclear envoy talks.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, "During this visit to the U.S., the three countries?South Korea, the U.S., and Japan?are expected to share assessments of the recent situation on the Korean Peninsula and hold in-depth consultations on ways to promptly resume dialogue with North Korea."

With North Korea continuing military provocations by launching missiles seven times in January alone, attention is focused on whether measures can be devised through the trilateral South Korea-U.S.-Japan consultations to bring North Korea back to dialogue.

The U.S. Department of State also announced on the 6th (local time) that Representative Kim will visit Honolulu from the 10th to the 15th to hold the South Korea-U.S., South Korea-Japan, and South Korea-U.S.-Japan senior nuclear envoy consultations. The Department of State conveyed that they will discuss a wide range of issues including the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the importance of trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the U.S., and Japan, and the immediate resolution of abduction issues.

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