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S. Korea, Japan to Hold Defense Talks

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South Korea and Japan will hold a working-level defense meeting for bilateral cooperation in Seoul Thursday, the Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday.

The meeting is the 15th of its kind since 1994, it said in a press release.

The two sides will exchange views on ways to promote bilateral cooperation on defense affairs, it said.

Kim Kyu-hyun, chief of the ministry's international cooperation bureau, will lead the Korean delegation, while Hironori Kanazawa, deputy director of the Japanese Defense Ministry's defense policy bureau, will head the Japanese delegation.

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