[Asia Economy Reporter Inho Yoo] The foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States, and Japan will hold a meeting on the 8th in Bali, Indonesia, where the Group of Twenty (G20) Foreign Ministers' Meeting is taking place, to discuss cooperation measures on North Korea issues and others.

Foreign Minister Park Jin is scheduled to hold a foreign ministers' meeting in the afternoon with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa.

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The government will discuss ways to strengthen cooperation to respond to the North Korean nuclear threat, including measures in case of North Korea's 7th nuclear test.

This is a follow-up to the trilateral cooperation measures discussed at the South Korea-U.S.-Japan summit held on the 29th of last month during the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit in Spain, aimed at responding to the evolving threats of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile programs.

After arriving at Bali airport the day before, Minister Park told reporters, "The three leaders gathered in Madrid to discuss various important agendas, and as a follow-up, we will talk about ways to cooperate."

Since Minister Park will have opportunities to meet Foreign Minister Hayashi at the South Korea-U.S.-Japan meeting and the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting venue, there is also a possibility of exchanging views on South Korea-Japan relations.

Meanwhile, Minister Park Jin will attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, which opens on the morning of the same day. The meeting will proceed in two sessions: the first session on "Strengthening Multilateralism" and the second session on "Responding to Food and Energy Security."

At the meeting, the Western camp and China and Russia are expected to engage in a blame game over the food and energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine.

Russia has bombed key agricultural infrastructure such as Ukraine's grain storage facilities, causing massive food losses, and blocked Black Sea ports, cutting off Ukraine's supply to the global grain market.

While the United States and others criticize this, Russia is expected to counter by claiming that U.S.-led sanctions against Russia are the cause of the food and energy crisis.

Attention is also focused on what actions Western countries will take at the meeting against Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is attending the foreign ministers' meeting for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine.

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