South Korea, US, and Japan to Hold Vice Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Japan on July 18

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on July 16 that South Korea, the United States, and Japan will hold the 15th trilateral vice foreign ministers’ meeting in Japan on July 18.

Park Yoonjoo, First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, is greeting Takeshi Iwaya, Japanese Foreign Minister, at the Foreign Ministers' Meeting held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia. Photo by Yonhap News

The South Korea-US-Japan Vice Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is a regular forum convened to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation on North Korea’s nuclear issue, as well as regional and global matters.

Park Yoonjoo, First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, Christopher Landau, US Deputy Secretary of State, and Funakoshi Takehiro, Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, are scheduled to attend this meeting. Park also plans to hold separate bilateral talks with his US and Japanese counterparts during the meeting.

This meeting is being held for the first time in nine months since the last session in Seoul in October of the previous year, and it is the first such meeting since the inauguration of the Lee Jaemyung administration in South Korea and the Donald Trump administration in the United States.

A Ministry of Foreign Affairs official stated, “We plan to hold broad and in-depth discussions on the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in the region, economic security, technology, energy, and the development of trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the US, and Japan.”