South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the creation of an interagency “security ministers’ meeting” to facilitate tighter coordination on North Korea, following signs of discord within his administration over who should take the lead on DPRK policy.

Lee instructed officials to establish the body, bringing together the foreign, defense and unification ministries, following a closed-door policy briefing, presidential spokesperson Kim Nam-jun said Friday.

The president heard internal assessments from the foreign ministry, the Overseas Koreans Agency and the unification ministry after their livestreamed policy reports, and separately reviewed the defense ministry’s briefing a day earlier.

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