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National2023-04-06 16:22
S. Korea, US vow full cooperation against N. Korea threats
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Kim Gunn, right, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, shakes hands with his U.S. counterpart Sung Kim ahead of a meeting in Seoul's foreign ministry, Thursday. Yonhap
Kim Gunn, right, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, shakes hands with his U.S. counterpart Sung Kim ahead of a meeting in Seoul's foreign ministry, Thursday. Yonhap

Trilateral talks among top nuke envoys of Seoul, Washington and Tokyo slated for Friday

By Lee Hyo-jin

Top nuclear envoy of the South Korean government Kim Gunn held bilateral talks with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, respectively, where they reaffirmed full cooperation against North Korea's rising nuclear provocations.

On Thursday morning, Kim, Seoul's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, held talks with Sung Kim, the U.S. special representative for North Korea, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul.

"The two sides reaffirmed that North Korea will pay a price for its unlawful provocations, which pose threats to the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula as well as the international community," the ministry said in a statement.

The two envoys also called for international awareness of the need to bring a stop to North Korea's theft of cryptocurrency ― a key funding source for its weapons programs ― and counter illicit cyber activities by its hackers. The allies also vowed to redouble their efforts to make the regime abandon its development of nuclear arms.

At the same time, they said that Seoul and Washington are always open to dialogue, pointing out that Pyongyang has been refusing their proposals for negotiations.

Thursday's meeting marks the second in-person talks between the two envoys since South Korea's representative Kim traveled to Washington in February.

Before the meeting with Kim, the U.S. envoy met with Foreign Minister Park Jin, where Park stressed solid cooperation to create a strategic environment where Pyongyang has no choice but to turn to negotiations on denuclearization.

Later in the day, the Korean nuclear envoy held a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Takehiro Funakoshi, director general for Asian and Oceanian affairs at Japan's Foreign Ministry.