(VOVworld) –Defense Ministers from the US, Japan, and South Korea are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the Asia Security Summit in Singapore at the end of this month to discuss co-operation in dealing with North Korea’s nuclear program.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye (L), US President Barack Obama (center), and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a tri-lateral meeting after the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, March 23, 2014. (Photo: Reuteurs)

The South Korean government is preparing for one-and-one meetings between its Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan. The main topic of the South Korea-China Defense Ministers’ meeting will be North Korea’s potential for another nuclear test.