South Korea and the United States held a working-level cyber policy meeting Friday to bolster efforts against North Korea’s growing threats in cyberspace, the foreign ministry said.

Lee Dong-ryeol, the South Korean foreign ministry’s ambassador for international security affairs, and Liesyl Franz, deputy assistant secretary for international cyberspace security in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, led the seventh Cyber Policy Coordination Meeting in Seoul.

The two sides shared the consensus that North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs allegedly funded by cryptocurrency theft pose a serious security threat to Seoul and Washington, as well as global peace, and vowed to expand cooperation to deal with the North’s rising cyber threat, the ministry said.

They also agreed to bolster coordination for cyber crime investigations, expanding information sharing and people-to-people exchanges in anti-hacking efforts and technology cooperation, and development of joint cybersec
urity drills in the defense sector, it said.

Source: Yonhap News Agency