WASHINGTON — The United States, South Korea and Japan agreed on Friday to work to resolve the issue of North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs “through concerted trilateral cooperation towards denuclearization,” a joint statement said.
The statement followed a day of talks between new U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and his Japanese counterpart, Shigeru Kitamura, and South Korea’s national security adviser, Suh Hoon.
The three countries also agreed on the need for full implementation by the international community of U.N. Security Council resolutions on North Korea, “preventing proliferation, and cooperating to strengthen dete…
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