President Lee Myung-bak plans to convene a security ministers' meeting Wednesday to discuss issues related to North Korea and other outstanding diplomatic and security matters, his spokesman said.
The meeting comes a day after Pyongyang held a rare meeting of its rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly, and tensions around the western sea border with the communist nation have risen in the wake of repeated violations by North Korean fishing boats.
Attending the security meeting will be the unification and defense ministers, the first vice foreign minister, the head of the National Intelligence Service and the senior presidential security advisor, presidential spokesman Park Jeong-ha said.
Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan cannot attend as he is in New York for a U.N. meeting. (Yonhap)