Key components of the American Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system, known as THAAD, are in place to protect South Korea from a North Korean missile launch.
Moon on Monday stressed the importance of cooperation with Japan in efforts to denuclearise North Korea and Nikai agreed, the South's presidential office said, while Suga said the two confirmed the importance of putting pressure on North Korea.
The White House announced on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Korean President Moon Jae-in late this month for talks on the Korean Peninsula's nuclear issue.
The editorial comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, with Trump repeatedly vowing to put an end to North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. There have also been concerns that North Korea is developing a missile that could hit the US mainland.
An image of suspected North Korean drone found on a mountain in Inje, Gangwon Province, on Friday.
The C4ADS report said a small number of interconnected Chinese firms accounted for the vast proportion of trade with North Korea, leaving the impoverished country's procurement network vulnerable to targeted, enforced sanctions. Although the South Korean military said the drone was designed for "surveillance", analysts warned the North could turn the device into tools for terrorism.
"We will come up with measures to deal with North Korean drones", said an official at South Korea's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who also declined to be identified as he is not authorised to speak to the media.
The agreement on the summit was reached between Matt Pottinger, a senior director for East Asia at the National Security Council of the White House and Chung Eui-yong, a former South Korean ambassador to Geneva who now leads Moon's security and diplomatic task force.
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Cho also oversaw South Korea's economic cooperation projects with the North, including a jointly run industrial complex in Kaesong, just north of the border.
Another North Korean soldier defected across the DMZ last September.
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As part of his election campaign, Moon promised to move away the status quo regarding South Korea's relationship with North Korea and attempt to engage with Kim Jong Un's regime, something that greatly appealed to young people.
North Korea is extremely hostile to the deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system.
The Seongju county is some 270 km south of the military demarcation line (MDL) that has divided the two Koreas since the three-year Korean War ended in armistice in 1953.
The article continued it was "another heavy crime and unpardonable pro-U.S. act of treachery".
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