US special envoy for N. Korea to hold three-way meeting with S. Korean, Japanese counterparts
(VOVWORLD) - US special representative for North Korea Sung Kim will hold a trilateral meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts this week to discuss ways to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, the State Department said Sunday.
 US special representative for North Korea Sung Kim with his Japanese counterpart Takehiro Funakoshi and South Korean counterpart Noh Kyu-duk at a meeting in Tokyo, Japan September 14, 2021. (Photo: AFP/VNA) |
Kim will travel to Hawaii from this Thursday through next Tuesday for a meeting with South Korea's Noh Kyu-duk and Japan's Funakoshi Takehiro. The three nuclear envoys will be accompanying their foreign ministers, who are also set to hold three-way foreign ministerial talks on Saturday.
The meetings follow a series of North Korean missile launches, which the US has condemned as serious violations of multiple UN Security Council resolutions. The North has so far fired nine ballistic missile in seven rounds of missile tests this year.