South Korea is expecting fresh consultations with Japan “at many levels,” a senior Foreign Ministry official in Seoul said Friday following their high-level talks the previous day that took place after a nine-year hiatus. First Vice Foreign Minister Chang Ho-jin and his Japanese counterpart, Vice Foreign Minister Masataka Okano, met in Seoul to reaffirm their commitment to curbing the growing threat from .
South Korea and Japan were set to hold vice-ministerial talks in Seoul on Thursday, the first such talks in nine years amid warming bilateral relations. First Vice Foreign Minister Chang Ho-jin will meet his Japanese counterpart, Masataka Okano, for "strategic dialogue" discussions expected to address various agenda items from bilateral relations to regional and global issues, according to South Korea'.
Korea and Japan were set to hold vice-ministerial talks in Seoul on Thursday, the first such talks in nine years amid warming bilateral relations, as Japan was set to begin a second round of radioactive water discharge into the ocean.
South Korea and Japan restored the vice-ministerial diplomatic channels for dialogue in Seoul on Thursday for the first time in nine years, in one of Seoul's latest gestures toward improving ties with Tokyo. South Korea's First Vice Minister of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Chang Ho-jin met Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Masataka Okano in a closed-door meeting at 10 a.m. to "seek ways for strategic .