[Breaking] South Korea and US to Hold Deputy Minister-Level Extended Deterrence Strategy Meeting in Seoul on the 15th

15th Korea-US Deputy Minister-Level High-Level EDSCG Meeting to be Held on the 15th

The high-level Extended Deterrence Strategy Consultation Group (EDSCG), attended by the deputy ministers of foreign affairs and defense of South Korea and the United States, will be held in Seoul on the 15th.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense announced on the 8th that the 4th South Korea-U.S. Foreign Affairs and Defense (2+2) High-Level Extended Deterrence Strategy Consultation Group meeting will take place.

Participants at the Extended Deterrence Strategy and Consultation Group (EDSCG) meeting held in Washington DC on September 16, 2022. From left to right: Bonnie Jenkins, U.S. Department of State Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security; Shin Beom-chul, Deputy Minister of Defense; Cho Hyun-dong, First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; Colin Kahl, U.S. Department of Defense Under Secretary for Policy. (Photo by Yonhap News)

Both South Korea and the U.S. agreed last year at the EDSCG to hold this consultation group annually, and this meeting will be the first held in South Korea since the launch of the EDSCG. The 1st to 3rd meetings were held in Washington in 2016, 2018, and 2022, respectively.

South Korea’s chief representatives attending are Jang Ho-jin, 1st Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Shin Beom-cheol, Vice Minister of National Defense. From the U.S. side, Bonnie Jenkins, U.S. Department of State Deputy Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, and Sasha Baker, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, will attend.

At this meeting, the South Korea-U.S. deputy ministers of foreign affairs and defense plan to comprehensively and deeply discuss bilateral policy and strategic cooperation measures to strengthen the credibility of extended deterrence amid North Korea’s increasingly sophisticated and blatant nuclear and missile threats.

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