A U.S. defense official is set to attend trilateral defense talks with her South Korean and U.S. counterparts and a meeting with U.N. Command (UNC) member states in Seoul this week, a Pentagon spokesperson said Monday. Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Cara Abercrombie will co-chair the Defense Trilateral Talks with her counterparts and lead the U.S. delegation to the South Korea-UNC Member States Defense Ministerial Meeting set for Tuesday (Korea time), according to Lt. Col. Garron Garn. Abercrombie is also set to deliver remarks at the Seoul Defense Dialogue, an annual international security meeting set to take place Wednesday and Thursday. "During her trip, Ms. Abercrombie will take steps to deepen trilateral cooperation between the United States, the ROK, and Japan; take actions to develop a positive future vision for the United Nations Command in collaboration with current member states; and highlight the importance of expanding defense industrial cooperation while also protecting c ritical technologies," the spokesperson said in a release. ROK stands for South Korea's official name, the Republic of Korea. A series of defense talks this week are set to proceed as Seoul has been striving to secure international cooperation to help address North Korea's growing nuclear and missile threats. Source: Yonhap News Agency