National security adviser meets US under secretary of state for talks on security

National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac met with visiting US Under Secretary of State Allison Hooker on Tuesday, welcoming the launch of follow-up negotiations on an agreement reached by their countries' leaders last year.

"We hope that two days of productive talks will help accelerate progress on the matter," Cheong Wa Dae said in a press release.

"Both sides reaffirmed the ROK-US alliance as a central pillar of peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo-Pacific, and pledged to ...