Senior US diplomat to visit Seoul soon to launch working groups on October summit agreements

WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. diplomat will visit Seoul in the coming weeks to launch bilateral working groups to implement agreements from a summit between South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump in October, the countries' governments said Tuesday. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Allison Hooker will lead a U.S. delegation to the South Korean capital, Seoul's foreign ministry and the State Department said, after she and Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo held talks at the department in Washington. Park arrived in the U.S. capital on Monday as part of efforts to accelerate progress in the implementation of the summit agreements, including U.S. cooperation on Seoul's push to build nuclear-powered submarines and secure rights to civil uranium enrichment and spent nuclear fuel reprocessing. "Under Secretary Hooker will lead an interagency delegation to Seoul in the coming weeks to launch bilateral working groups to continue implementing understandings from President Trump's October 2025 visit to the ROK," the department said in a med

Original source: Korea Times