Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul met with a group of experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and discussed North Korea and the South Korea-U.S. alliance, his office said Wednesday.
Cho stressed the importance of the allies’ joint response amid growing concerns over North Korea’s possible military provocations in the Yellow Sea during his talks with John Hamre, the president of the U.S. think tank, in Seoul on Tuesday, according to the ministry.
He also expressed South Korea’s commitment to ramping up efforts to block the North’s “illegal military cooperation” with Russia through a firm South Korea-U.S. alliance and Seoul-Washington-Tokyo security cooperation.
Other participants at the meeting are Victor Cha, Korea Chair at the CSIS, former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger and Allison Hooker, former senior director for Asian affairs at the White House National Security Council.
Source: Yonhap News Agency