US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks to his car after disembarking from his airplane upon arrival at Brussels Airport in Belgium, June 12, 2021, as he arrives ahead of the NATO Summit.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Chung Eui-Yong reaffirmed a commitment between their countries and Japan to work closely toward the "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," the State Department said.
The statement, issued after the two met on the sidelines of a Group of Seven summit, referred, without naming the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to efforts that have made little or no progress toward getting Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear arsenal.
Blinken and Chung also stressed the importance of multilateral cooperation to address other regional issues.
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