Korea-Japan Hold '2+2 Diplomatic and Security Dialogue' After 5 Years... Discuss North Korea Situation and More

The 'Director-General Level 2+2 Foreign and Security Dialogue' discussing defense and security cooperation measures between South Korea and Japan will be held on the morning of the 17th in Seoul.

On the same morning, South Korea and Japan have decided to hold the '12th Korea-Japan Security Policy Consultative Meeting' at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Jongno-gu. The meeting is expected to be attended by Seo Min-jung, Director-General of the Asia-Pacific Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Woo Kyung-seok, Deputy Director-General of International Policy at the Ministry of National Defense, Funakoshi Takehiro, Director-General of the Asia and Oceania Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ando Atsushi, Deputy Director-General of Defense Policy at the Ministry of Defense.

Joint press conference of the Korea-Japan leaders held at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo, Japan, on the 16th of last month. [Image source=Yonhap News]

This consultative meeting was resumed after five years in accordance with the agreement between the two leaders at last month's Korea-Japan summit to restore various consultative bodies between the two countries.

The Korea-Japan Security Policy Consultative Meeting has been held 11 times since the first meeting in Seoul in 1998, following the agreement at the Korea-Japan Foreign Ministers' Meeting in 1997. However, it has not been held since the Tokyo meeting in March 2018 due to deteriorating relations caused by issues such as compensation for forced labor victims and Japan's export restrictions.

At this meeting, the two countries will exchange views on the security environment in Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula, the current status of their defense and security policies and cooperation, and the future direction of defense and security cooperation between the two countries.

In addition, as the threat level of North Korea's nuclear and missile provocations has escalated recently, the two sides are expected to share information on the North Korean situation and trends and discuss related response measures.

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