U.S. nuclear envoy Joseph Yun meets South Korean counterpart in Seoul

Record ID: 492849

  • Title: U.S. nuclear envoy Joseph Yun meets South Korean counterpart in Seoul
  • Date: 22nd March 2017
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (MARCH 22, 2017) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** SOUTH KOREA'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR KOREAN PENINSULA PEACE AND SECURITY AFFAIRS, KIM HONG-KYUN, AND UNITED STATES SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR NORTH KOREA POLICY, JOSEPH YUN WALKING INTO MEETING ROOM AND SHAKING HANDS YUN AND KIM POSING FOR PHOTOS YUN, KIM, U.S. DELEGATION, AND SOUTH
  • Embargoed: 5th April 2017 04:32
  • Keywords: south korea u.s. nuclear envoy joseph yun north korea
  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • City: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001691JJ2F
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Joseph Yun met with his South Korean counterpart Kim Hong-kyun in Seoul on Wednesday (March 22) to discuss a response to the North's weapons programme.
    The bilateral meeting comes one week after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's first Asia trip to Japan, South Korea and China. Yun said Tillerson has delivered a strong message to Beijing that they are concerned about China's retaliation against deployment of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system in South Korea.
    China has expressed anger over South Korea's moves to deploy the missile system, which Seoul and Washington say is designed to thwart the threat of attack from nuclear-armed North Korea, but which Beijing says is targeted at China.
    The meeting also takes place as Pyongyang reportedly failed a test missile launch on Wednesday morning. The U.S. military detected a failed North Korean missile launch attempt, with a missile exploding within seconds of its launch, a U.S. military spokesman said. South Korea also confirmed the apparent North Korean test launch did not go off normally.
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