South Korea and Japan will hold another director-general-level meeting this week to discuss Seoul's requests regarding Tokyo's plan to discharge contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, an official said Tuesday.
The two sides held their first round of talks in Japan last Tuesday to discuss follow-up measures after President Yoon Suk Yeol asked Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to include South Korean experts in monitoring the Fukushima water release.
During the meeting held on the sidelines of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Lithuania, Yoon also asked that the discharge be stopped immediately if the concentration of radioactive material in the water exceeds standard levels and that Japan promptly inform South Korea.
"Additional working-level consultations with Japan will take place this week," Park Ku-yeon, the first deputy chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, told a daily briefing.
Meanwhile, the government has not yet received any response from Tokyo regarding a letter sent by the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) to Kishida, according to Park.
On Friday, Rep. Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the DP, sent the letter via the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to convey "people's concerns and opposition" to the planned release.
Source: Yonhap News Agency