Japan and South Korea agreed Sunday to hold a three-way meeting involving the United States to coordinate policies toward North Korea before the April 4 resumption of diplomatic normalization talks between Japan and North Korea, Japanese officials said.
Foreign Minister Yohei Kono and South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Lee Joung Binn reached the agreement in a meeting Sunday in Seoul. , the officials said.
The trilateral meeting could be held as early as Wednesday in Tokyo, they said.