{"id":43797,"date":"2022-01-17T09:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43797"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:32:31","slug":"special-representative-for-the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea-dprk-kims-trilateral-call-with-republic-of-korea-rok-special-representative-noh-and-japan-director-general-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43797","title":{"rendered":"Special Representative for the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim\u2019s Trilateral Call with Republic of Korea (ROK) Special Representative Noh and Japan Director General Funakoshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>01\/17\/2022 09:17 AM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>In a January 17 trilateral call, U.S. Special Representative for the DPRK Sung Kim, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi Takehiro, and ROK Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh Kyu-duk discussed the DPRK\u2019s January 17 ballistic missile launches.<\/p>\n<p>In his call with Special Representative Noh and Director General Funakoshi, Special Representative Kim reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, as well as its ironclad commitment to the defense of its allies, the ROK and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Special Representative Kim expressed concern about the DPRK\u2019s missile launches, which violated multiple UN Security Council resolutions and were the latest in a series of ballistic missile launches by the DPRK this month.\u00a0 He called on the DPRK to cease its unlawful and destabilizing activities and instead engage in dialogue, underscoring the United States\u2019 continued openness to meeting the DPRK without preconditions.\u00a0 The three officials committed to continue their close coordination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/17\/2022 09:17 AM EST &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43798,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797\/revisions\/43798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}