South Korea's Defence Minister Kim Kwan-jin (R)

South Korea and the United States plan to hold high-level security talks in Washington next week that will bring together the foreign and defense ministers of the two allies, diplomatic sources said Thursday.
The "two plus two" meeting has been tentatively set for Thursday next week when the two countries hold their annual defense ministers' talks, known as the Security Consultative Meeting (SCM), the sources said. Final fine-tuning is under way to fix the schedule, they said.