South Korea and the United States will hold a high-level meeting in New York on the sidelines of the 69th UN General Assembly.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul and the Department of State in Washington said South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will meet with U.S. State Secretary John Kerry on Tuesday morning.
 
The two sides are expected to exchange opinions and fine-tune a joint policy on the human rights violations in North Korea, which has sparked worldwide concern following the report on the issue made by the UN Commission of Inquiry early this year.  
 
After the meeting, Yun and Kerry will both participate in a UN high-ranking meeting on the North’s human rights issue and are expected to declare their resolve to work together to improve the situation.  
 
The UN meeting will be hosted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights. It will be attended by Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein.
 
The meeting will also be attended by North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk, who was given the Human Rights Watch’s annual award last week for his awareness campaign on the human rights issue in the North.