Korea and the United States held their first high-level meeting to implement the "joint fact sheet," a deliverable from the bilateral summit.
On the 1st (local time), First Vice Minister Park Yun-ju of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Lando at the State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss a wide range of issues related to implementing the fact sheet.
The meeting was held behind closed doors, and Vice Minister Park entered the venue without comment when asked by reporters upon arrival at the State Department building. The State Department had previously officially previewed the meeting schedule between Deputy Secretary Lando and Vice Minister Park.
At this high-level consultation, the two sides were said to have discussed advancing various issues specified in the fact sheet, including forming a U.S.-Korea consultative body. Uranium enrichment and spent nuclear fuel reprocessing, construction of nuclear-powered submarines, and coordination on North Korea policy appear to have been discussed broadly.
After arriving the previous day via Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., Vice Minister Park told the press in an interview, "For the various matters between the United States and Korea to be actually implemented, the United States needs the necessary organization and we also need the necessary organization," adding, "We will identify and establish consultation channels, taking into account the U.S. side's circumstances."
On the issue of building nuclear-powered submarines, Park said, "We need to review the various matters in the fact sheet overall once and create a path to make progress."