Senior officials from South Korea, the United States, and Japan have condemned recent North Korean missile tests and urged Pyongyang to engage in diplomatic dialogue.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman took part in the three-way meeting with the No. 2 diplomats of South Korea and Japan in Seoul Wednesday, local time.
The trilateral meetings came days after North Korea conducted its latest missile tests and as the authoritarian country appears to prepare for what would be its first nuclear test since 2017.
South Korea Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori, and Sherman called North Korea’s recent missile tests “serious, unlawful” provocations….