Security advisers from Japan, the U.S., and South Korea met over the weekend in San Francisco to discuss North Korean denuclearization and two planned summits with the DPRK, according to a White House press release issued on Monday.

National Security Advisor of the United States H.R. McMaster, National Security Office Director Chung Eui-yong of the Republic of Korea, and Secretary General of the National Security Secretariat Shotaro Yachi of Japan held the trilateral meeting in the wake of a recent conciliatory posture from North Korea.

During the meeting, the three security officials discussed “the permanent denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and