US Secretary of State Blinken to visit South Korea

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be heading towards South Korea on Nov. 8 and 9 to converse North Korea and alliance problems with Foreign Minister Park Jin, South Korea’s foreign ministry conveyed on Wednesday. Park and Blinken will also converse economic safety, cooperation on industrial technology and areal problems of mutual interest, the ministry conveyed. The visit marks the first by a U.S. secretary of state in two and a half years and comes amid raised security cooperation between the allies and increasing worries about North Korea’s military cooperation with Russia