India will attend an international meeting hosted by Canada and the U.S., next month. The meeting will discuss North Korea’s nuclear threat and measures to improve the current situation.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Canadian counterpart Chrystia Freeland made this announcement in Ottawa. The meeting will be held in Vancouver on the 16th of January.
Tillerson said, “With the convening of what we’re calling the Vancouver Group in mid January, this is a convening of Foreign Ministers from the original sending states that were involved in the original Korean conflict.”
The Vancouver Group will include Turkey, South Africa, France, Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Luxemburg, New Zealand, Britain, Ethiopia, the Netherlands, the Philippines and Thailand.
Tillerson further said, “But we also obviously are including other important parties the Republic of Korea, Japan, India, Sweden, and others, who we think are important to have engaged in this meeting.”
At the meeting in Ottawa Tillerson explained the key questions for the meeting, “Are there other steps that could be taken to put additional pressure on the regime in North Korea, and how do we further take our diplomatic efforts forward? And then how do we prepare for the prospects of talk?”
North Korea has increased the pace of its missile program this year. Pyongyang alone has fired 23 missiles since February. The tension between North Korea and America has been increasing. A solution is required to get North Korea to stop their nuclear power hunt.
