After being sidelined from North Korea issues for the last few years, a top foreign affairs official from Tokyo jumped on a call with Seoul and Washington on Friday morning to talk “close cooperation” over “North Korea-related challenges.”

Officials from all three countries spoke for roughly 70 minutes and reiterated the importance of denuclearization and the “maintenance of peace and stability” on the Korean Peninsula, according to the U.S. State Department.

The trilateral talks — a first since U.S. President Joe Biden took office last month — included foreign affairs officials Sung Kim from the United States, Noh Kyu-duk