U.S., Japan, South Korea diplomats may meet next week over North Korea

Japan, the United States and South Korea are considering bringing together their senior officials in charge of North Korea issues in Washington possibly next week, their first such meeting since the change of Japanese prime minister, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.The meeting is expected to demonstrate their trilateral cooperation as North Korea continues to alarm the region such as through the recent test-firing of short-range ballistic missiles and what Pyongyang claims to be a newly developed hypersonic missile.The participants would be Takehiro Funakoshi, head of the Japanese Foreign…READ FULL ARTICLE