US alliance bedrock of South Korea's foreign policy: Korea Herald, Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – National security advisers from the US, South Korea and Japan had a three-way meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, on Friday (April 2). Hours later, the foreign ministers of South Korea and China held talks in a southern Chinese city close to Taiwan. The meeting of national security advisers was convened to secure cooperation from South Korea and Japan in the US plan to counter China, and to cement the solidarity of the three countries in the mission of denuclearising North Korea. The meeting of the South Korean and Chinese foreign ministers, proposed by Beijing,…