SEOUL, June 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy will follow up this week's U.S-South Korea summit with a visit to Seoul, Pentagon sources say.
Michele Flournoy will travel to Seoul next week to discuss an agreement reached between U.S. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Lee Myung-bak, in which the United States guaranteed in writing the nuclear umbrella for South Korea against nuclear-armed North Korea, unnamed sources told the South Korean news agency Yonhap Saturday.
"Flournoy will travel to Seoul, South Korea, on June 26 for consultations with our Republic of Korea allies," the Pentagon official said. "This trip has added significance as the first high-level U.S. government visit to Seoul following the summit between Presidents Obama and Lee on June 16, during which the two leaders promulgated the joint vision statement outlining our shared vision of the future, of a more strategic and global-oriented U.S.-(South Korea) alliance."
Flournoy will also visit China, where she reportedly will discuss the North's nuclear moves.
"North Korea will factor in very strongly," the official said. "The recent activities by North Korea, of course, occasioned a U.N. Security Council resolution. And the activities are of great concern to China."
