The Secretary and Foreign Ministers condemned the DPRKs recent ballistic missile launches and expressed deep concern about the destabilizing nature of these actions.

and Japanese counterparts on several ways to engage with North Korea.South Koreas top nuclear envoy Noh Kyu-duk earlier said he had very meaningful and productive discussions with his U.

the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.said the joint statement issued at the end of their trilateral talks.they committed to advance trilateral security cooperation.

The Secretary and the Foreign Ministers emphasized they held no hostile intent towards the DPRK and underscored continued openness to meeting the DPRK without preconditions.the longest-range ballistic missile launched by the North since late 2017.

he said in the joint press conference with his U.

South Koreas foreign ministry said of the Chung-Blinken talks in a press release.It was during the course of this retreat that the North Korean military killed at least 1.

which was made based on research by the Seoul Theological University.100 Christians in accordance with the regimes drive toward religious persecution.

after deeming the church itself to be a hostile enemy force.which had previously reached the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.