Top diplomats of S. Korea, US, Japan to meet in Manila this week

The top diplomats of South Korea, the United States and Japan will meet in Manila this week to discuss coordination on North Korea and enhance three-way economic and security cooperation, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday.

Foreign Minister Cho Hyun is scheduled to meet with U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Wednesday on the sidelines of a series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-related ministerial meetings in the Philippine capital, according to the ministry.

The upcoming meeting will come about two weeks after the three ministers held talks on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Ankara on July 7.

The three sides are expected to discuss issues on North Korea, ways to enhance trilateral security cooperation and economic ties, and the Middle East crisis and other regional and global developments, according to ministry officials.

During their trilateral meeting earlier this month, the ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and vowed to ...