U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will head to Hawaii this month to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts, the U.S. State Department announced on Friday.

The trip follows over a half-dozen missile tests by North Korea since the start of the year, including the North’s first intermediate-range ballistic missile launch since 2017.

Blinken, South Korean foreign minister Chung Eui-yong and Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi will meet next Saturday, Feb. 12 “to deepen our cooperation in addressing threats from the DPRK’s nuclear and missile programs and confronting 21st century challenges together