Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Young-se agreed on Thursday to work closely with the US government to deal with issues related to North Korea - including Pyongyang's missile and nuclear programs.
During their talks in Tokyo, Hayashi and Kwon, who is the first South Korean unification minister to visit Japan since 2005, expressed a shared view that North Korea's repeated missile tests are a serious and imminent threat to regional security.
Kwon will be in Japan for four days this weekend, as he leads South Korea's Pyongyang-related measures. Since the South Korean government announced a resolution to a bilateral wartime labor dispute earlier this month, relations between Tokyo and Seoul have improved since.
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