| Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong shakes hands with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul, June 7. Yonhap |
Senior government officials of South Korea and the United States had talks here Tuesday on North Korea and pending alliance issues, two weeks after their presidents agreed during a Seoul summit to upgrade Seoul-Washington ties to a "Global Comprehensive Strategic Alliance."
The meeting between Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman came a couple of days after the North fired eight short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) into the East Sea. This was their first face-to-face consultation since the inauguration of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.
The two plan to meet again in Seoul, Wednesday, in a trilateral session involving their Japanese counterpart Takeo Mori. The previous gathering of the regional powers' No. 2 diplomats took place in Washington, D.C., in November last year. (Yonhap)