Seoul: The intelligence chiefs of South Korea, Japan and the United States are meeting in Seoul today ( October 1) behind closed doors for discussions on North Korea and other pending issues, according to a source.

As per details derived from the source, Park Jie-won, the head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS), will meet Avril Haines, the US director of national intelligence, and Hiroaki Takizawa, Japan's Cabinet intelligence director.  They will meet for the first time since May in Tokyo and are expected to share the assessments of the security situations on the Korean Peninsula, following Pyongyang's recent series of missile launches. Pyongyang has remained unresponsive to Washington's overtures for dialogue, with denuclearization talks having stalled since the no-deal summit between then US President Donald Trump and the North's leader Kim Jong-un in 2019. Also, The chief nuclear envoys of the three regional powers are scheduled to meet in Washington on Tuesday.

The top spy agency officials may also touch on South Korean President Moon Jae-in's recent proposal to declare a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War as Seoul ramps up diplomacy to revitalize its drive for lasting peace on the peninsula.  The talks could also consider ways to strengthen trilateral intelligence sharing, as the leaders of the two East Asian countries attempt to patch up rocky relations over historic disputes stemming from Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910-45.

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