1. Amb. Noh Kyu-duk, Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, held a bilateral consultation on the DPRK with Mr. Funakoshi Takehiro, Director-General of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the afternoon of June 21 following the ROK-U.S. and ROK-U.S.-Japan trilateral consultations.

2. The ROK and Japanese chief negotiators shared their assessments of the current situation on the Korean Peninsula and exchanged views on ways that the ROK and Japan, as well as the ROK, the U.S. and Japan, can work together to make substantive progress in the complete denuclearization and the establishment of permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula