On Oct. 18, intelligence chiefs of South Korea, the United States, and Japan convened in Seoul to discuss North Korean issues, aiming to bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table through a flurry of diplomacy.
According to the Korea Herald, a trilateral meeting was said to have been held between the head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service Park Jie-won, the U.S. director of national intelligence Avril Haines, and Japan’s cabinet intelligence director Hiroaki Takizawa on Oct. 18.
