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S. Korean, Japanese defense chiefs to meet again within a month

The korea Herald News

June 26, 2026

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S. Korean, Japanese defense chiefs to meet again within a month

South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back and Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi are set to hold their second face-to-face meeting in less than a month. The Defense Ministry said Friday that Ahn and Koizumi will hold talks at the ministry’s headquarters in Seoul on Sunday. “Koizumi’s visit to Korea is being carried out as part of shuttle defense diplomacy between the two countries’ defense ministers,” following Ahn’s visit to Japan in January, the ministry said in a statement. In Korea-

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