US, S.Korea, Japan Envoys Meet as N.Korea Appears to Prepare Nuclear Test

03 June 2022, South Korea, Seoul: Kim Gunn (C), South Korea's new special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, poses for a photo with Sung Kim (R), US special envoy for North Korea, and Takehiro Funakoshi, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, prior to their talks at the foreign ministry in Seoul. (dpa)

Officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan met in Seoul on Friday to prepare for "all contingencies" amid signs North Korea is preparing to conduct a nuclear test for the first time since 2017.

US Special Representative Sung Kim met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts, Kim Gunn and Funakoshi Takehiro, after a US assessment that the North was preparing its Punggye-ri test site for what would be its seventh nuclear test.