The new US special representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, will make a trip to Seoul not long from now for three-sided chats with his South Korean and Japanese partners, the State Department said Thursday.

During his excursion from Saturday through Wednesday, Kim will get the three-way meeting together with Noh Kyu-duk, Seoul’s uncommon agent for Korean Peninsula harmony and security issues, and Takehiro Funakoshi, Tokyo’s chief general for Asian and Oceanian issues, it said.

“Special Representative Kim’s travel to Seoul emphasizes the fundamental importance of US-ROK-Japan trilateral cooperation in working toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, protecting our shared security and prosperity, upholding common values, and bolstering the rules-based order,” the department said in a release.

ROK represents South Korea’s true name, the Republic of Korea.

While in Seoul, Kim additionally plans to meet with other senior South Korean authorities and individuals from the scholarly world and common society to examine the result of Washington’s as of late finished survey of strategy on North Korea.

Kim will be joined by Deputy Special Representative Jung Pak and an agent of the National Security Council, the office said.

After his first in-person culmination with President Moon Jae in Washington on May 21, US President Joe Biden declared Kim’s arrangement as Washington’s go-to person on Pyongyang, in a sign of the US preparation to continue exchange with the North.

Kim right now copies as diplomat to Indonesia.