WASHINGTON: The United States, Japan and South Korea have vowed “concerted trilateral cooperation” towards the denuclearisation of North Korea.

Senior national security officials of these counties held a meeting during which they discuss American policy review on North Korea and other regional issues, the White House said in a statement.

Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, held a rare in-person meeting with his counterparts from South Korea and Japan, Suh Hoon and Shigeru Kitamura, at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

On Friday, the national security advisors shared their concerns about North Korea's "nuclear and ballistic missile programs" and "reaffirmed their commitment to address and resolve these issues through concerted trilateral cooperation towards denuclearisation", as per Xinhua news.

"They agreed on the imperative for full implementation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions by the international community preventing proliferation, and cooperating to strengthen deterrence and maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula," the White House added.

The meeting came as a review by the Biden administration on how to deal with North Korea was in its final stages, following Donald Trump’s unusually personal diplomacy with strongman Kim Jong-un.

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