high-level diplomatic talks

Seoul, July 18 (IANS) Senior diplomats of South Korea, the United States and Japan reaffirmed Friday the need to maintain "strong" deterrence against North Korea's nuclear threats and agreed to continue efforts to advance their trilateral cooperation, Seoul officials said. They shared the view during the three-way dialogue in Tokyo, where First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo was joined by US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and their Japanese counterpart, Takehiro Funakoshi, Yonhap news agency reported. It marked the first vice foreign ministerial talks since the launch of the Lee Jae Myung government and the second Donald Trump administration.…