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Jeongmin Kim
Jeongmin Kim is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. She previously worked for the CSIS Korea Chair and in the Seoul bureau of Reuters news agency. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim
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.