(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) oul April 13 - South Korea the United States and Japan plan to hold a high-profile defense meeting in Washington this week in their latest effort to boost trilateral security cooperation ahead of US President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to the key Asian allies Seoul's defense ministry said Sunday. Deputy Defense Minister Ryu Je-seung will attend the Defense Trilateral Talks slated for April 17-18. He will also hold a bilateral meeting with David Helvey US deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia for two days prior to the tripartite session that also includes the Japanese delegation the ministry said. The three-way talks mark the latest return to diplomacy between South Korea and Japan whose own relations are tense due to historical and territorial disputes since the leaders of the three nations met on the sidelines of a nuclear safety summit in The Netherlands last month according to South Korea's (Yonhap) News Agency. South Korea's ties with Japan have been strained by what Seoul sees as Tokyo's failure to atone for atrocities during its 1910-1945 colonial rule especially since conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's controversial visit last year to a shrine that honors Class-A war criminals among other war dead
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