First Deputy Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong had a phone call today with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Takeo Mori to discuss trilateral cooperation plans to respond to North Korea’s recent missile provocation.
The three deputy ministers strongly condemned the recent series of missile provocations by North Korea of unprecedented scale and modality.
The three deputy ministers said North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile in violation of some UN Security Council resolutions posed a serious threat to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and the international community as a whole. , exacerbates North Korea’s isolation, and leads to strengthening the ROK-US alliance and South Korea-US-Japan security cooperation. pointed out that only
They also agreed to work closely together so that a resolute and united message can be sent to North Korea’s provocations at upcoming multilateral summits, such as the East Asia Summit and the top 20 country meetings.
The East Asia Summit will be held on the occasion of the ASEAN Summit to be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 10-13, and the G20 Summit will be held in Bali, Indonesia, 15-16.
The Deputy Ministers of the three countries assessed that they are communicating closely on common interests, such as the North Korean nuclear issue, through the meeting of the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Korea, the United States and Japan held in Tokyo on 26 last month, and decided to collaborate more closely at every level in the future.
At the time of the meeting, the three deputy ministers agreed to continue close cooperation in a situation where North Korea has increased the threat of the use of nuclear weapons and agreed that an unprecedented strong response would be needed, especially in the case of the 7th test.
Deputy Secretary Sherman and Deputy Secretary General Mori again expressed their deepest condolences to the Korean people who experienced the 10.29am disaster and expressed their gratitude to the Korean government for supporting their victims.
