To participate in trilateral discussions with his US and Japanese counterparts on North Korea's nuclear development, South Korea's senior nuclear envoy left for Japan on Tuesday.
On Wednesday in Tokyo, Kim Gunn, the special envoy for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula for Seoul, will meet with Sung Kim, the special envoy for North Korea for Washington, and Takehiro Funakoshi, the director general for Asian and Oceanian affairs at the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
The three nations are seen to be stepping up efforts to improve trilateral cooperation as the Wednesday meeting follows a trilateral gathering of the security chiefs last week.
The envoys of the three nations will discuss potential steps for North Korea's denuclearization and share assessments of the security situation on the Korean Peninsula, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry.
In a Friday news release announcing Sung Kim's visit to Tokyo, the US State Department stated that the three nations would address a wide variety of topics, including their shared efforts for "full denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
According to the press release, the US special envoy will also emphasize the US' dedication to persuading the North to engage in a disarmament process as they take all necessary steps to address the risks posed by Pyongyang.
The nuclear envoys from the three nations had previously convened in Bali in July.
In a meeting with Jake Sullivan of the US and Takeo Akiba of Japan last week in Honolulu, national security advisers from South Korea, the US, and Japan pledged to take tough action should the North conduct its seventh nuclear test.
"Maximize our cooperative efforts together with worldwide society to make sure the North knows that its seventh nuclear test is a clear error," Kim said the three nations had agreed.
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