Xinhua News:
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — Defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States condemned the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s recent missile launches during the bilateral talks in Washington, Seoul’s defense ministry said Thursday.
South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo visited Washington to hold talks with his U.S. counterpart James Mattis at the Pentagon Wednesday morning (Washington time), according to the Ministry of National Defense.
Song and Mattis confirmed a firm South Korea-U.S. alliance, strongly denouncing the DPRK’s ballistic missile launch on Tuesday and two other missile tests in July as a reckless, provocative and destructive behavior, the ministry said in a press release.
