"U.S. delegation cancels Seoul visit due to Iran situation"...Korean team to visit Washington first

[Financial News] The visit to South Korea by a U.S. interagency delegation for follow-up negotiations to the South Korea–United States summit has been canceled due to the situation in Iran. Instead, the two countries have agreed that a Korean interagency delegation will travel to Washington, D.C.
Attending the full session of the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee at the National Assembly on the 6th, Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun explained, "The U.S. delegation's visit to South Korea was delayed, and with the war, further delay became unavoidable." He added, "In consultation with the U.S. side, we agreed that our team will go to the United States first."
Minister Cho had previously said last month that a U.S. negotiating team for follow-up discussions to the South Korea–United States summit would visit South Korea in February. The follow-up negotiation team is to be formed as an interagency delegation covering security, tariffs, and trade. Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and other ministries will take part in the delegation.
Since the early stages of the South Korea–United States summit process, the Trump administration has pursued a "package deal" approach that links security and trade in a single negotiation. On the security side, key agenda items are expected to include nuclear-powered submarines, nuclear enrichment and reprocessing, North Korea's nuclear weapons, and the transfer of Wartime Operational Control (OPCON). The slow-moving issue of nuclear enrichment and reprocessing will be led by Im Gap-su, the government representative on the Republic of Korea–United States Nuclear Cooperation Task Force at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Talks on nuclear-powered submarines will be led by the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea. Detailed negotiations on tariffs and trade by sector are also expected to be taken up further with the relevant ministries.

rainman@fnnews.com Kim Kyung-soo Reporter