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Pompeo, S. Korean minister meet to coordinate on Peninsula issues

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Xinhua) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had met with South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon to coordinate on issues related to the Korean Peninsula, the State Department said Friday.
Pompeo and Cho "affirmed their commitment to close coordination" and "discussed ways to deepen coordination so that inter-Korean cooperation and progress on US-DPRK negotiations toward denuclearisation remain aligned," according to a statement issued by State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert.
The official KCNA news agency of the the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reported earlier on Friday that Kim Jong Un, the country's top leader, visited the testing ground of the Academy of Defence Science and supervised the test of a newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon.
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