US spy chief Avril Haines will be in South Korea and meet President Yoon Suk Yeol on June 28 amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula and a recent pact between Moscow and Pyongyang pledging closer military ties, Report informs referring to Reuters.
Haines will meet Yoon and discuss the deepening Russia-North Korea ties and Pyongyang's provocative moves, the Joongang Ilbo daily reported, citing an unnamed national security official.
The meeting will be unofficial and there is no plan to make their discussions public, the official was quoted as saying.