South Korea-U.S.-Japan Foreign Ministers to Meet; Arctic-Pacific Partnership Signing Expected

[Financial News] The foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States and Japan will meet again just over a month later. According to the Foreign Ministry on the 30th, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will hold a South Korea-U.S.-Japan foreign ministers’ meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu. 
The foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States and Japan will meet on the occasion of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting, taking place in Atlanta, U.S., on the 30th (local time), to discuss issues related to the Korean Peninsula, global affairs and ways to cooperate on economic security. This South Korea-U.S.-Japan foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta comes just over a month after their meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, U.S., last month.
The U.S. State Department also said in an announcement of Secretary Rubio’s schedule that all three ministers are expected to attend a signing ceremony for a memorandum of cooperation on the trilateral Arctic-Pacific partnership at the South Korea-U.S.-Japan foreign ministers’ meeting.
The foreign ministers of the two countries are also expected to assess North Korea’s recent ballistic missile launch and signs of closer ties between North Korea and China following North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s visit to China, and discuss ways to coordinate on North Korea.
The foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States and Japan have already met three times this year alone: on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Türkiye on July 7, at the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in the Philippines on July 22, and on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, U.S., on September 21.  

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