South Korea and the US will hold a new round of nuclear consultation talks in Seoul.

South Korea the US will hold a new round of nuclear consultation talks in Seoul. South Korea and the United States will conduct discussions on nuclear deterrence on Friday as part of Washington’s vow to share more excellent knowledge with Seoul about preparing in the event of a confrontation with North Korea.

The office of President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday that the second Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) meeting would take place in Washington, D.C., five months after the group’s debut meeting.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Yoon announced the NCG’s foundation during an April summit as part of a new “Washington Declaration,” under which Seoul also made a fresh vow not to seek nuclear weapons of its own.

Yoon has previously welcomed the founding of the nuclear group as an upgrade of the alliance, which aims to boost “extended deterrence” against North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman Kim Myung-soo conducted a phone discussion with his U.S. counterpart Charles Q. Brown on Tuesday, the JCS stated in a statement.

During the meeting, the two agreed to boost bilateral cooperation against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats and to counter Pyongyang’s developing military relations with Russia.

Kim and Brown also agreed to build a real-time data-sharing system to monitor North Korean missiles alongside Japan by the end of this year, the JCS said.