Barack Obama, the US president, will welcome his counterpart from South Korea for talks next month, the White House has announced.
Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s newly elected president, will meet Obama in Washington on May 7, with notice of the meeting coming amid heightened tensions with North Korea.
In a statement on Monday, the White House press secretary Jay Carney noted that the US and South Korea are observing the 60th anniversary of their alliance.
Carney said both leaders would discuss the North Korean threat and efforts to denuclearise the Korean peninsula.
North Korea recently has been issuing regular threats against the US and South Korea, though a test firing of a missile that had been expected by North Korea on Monday had not occurred late in the day.
Park was elected in December and took office on February 25. She is South Korea’s first female president.
