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South Korea and the United States have wrapped up the first day of formal negotiations to implement security agreements reached between their leaders at a summit last year.
According to the foreign ministry, the two sides opened the inaugural two-day meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul on Tuesday morning to discuss security-related items in the bilateral joint fact sheet published last November after the summit between President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump in October.
Following the meeting, attended by South Korea’s First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Allison Hooker, the two sides held another round of talks in the afternoon with senior national security officials in attendance.
On the first day of the talks, the two sides held extensive discussions on South Korea’s plans to build nuclear-powered submarines.
On Wednesday, they are expected to share views on South Korea’s plans to secure the right to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel.
The topic of expanding bilateral shipbuilding cooperation is unlikely to come up in Wednesday’s talks as the nation’s top trade officials had made headway in early May, including signing a memorandum of understanding to establish the South Korea-U.S. Shipbuilding Partnership Initiative.