Today's weekly meeting of the National Security Council, led by National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong,... focused on a range of pending military issues.<br />Ahead of the expiration of South Korea's military intel-sharing pact with Japan next week,... the NSC reviewed the status of Seoul-Tokyo relations... as well as possible negotiations through diplomatic channels.<br />No visible progress has been made on high-level talks, though, which President Moon proposed to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at an ASEAN summit earlier this month.<br />Members also discussed ways to gather international support for the Moon administration's peace drive on the Korean Peninsula... at the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting Plus in Thailand next week.<br />Also discussed were the ongoing negotiations over sharing the cost of stationing American troops in Korea.<br />
