RoK, US defence chiefs to meet in late August

This will mark their first talks since Mr. Song, former Navy chief of operations, took office in July.

"The Minister and the US top military official are expected to discuss ways to counter the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s nuclear and missile threats and bolster the Seoul-Washington alliance," Lee Jin-woo, an official at Seoul's defence ministry, told a press briefing.

Earlier, the two officials planned to meet each other in the framework of the annual RoK - US Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) in October./.