U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Seoul next week for talks with members of South Korea's government, the White House said late Monday. In a call with President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea, U.S. President Barack Obama "confirmed that Secretary (Hillary) Clinton would visit Seoul for consultations next week and that the defense and foreign ministers of the two countries would hold their first-ever "Two plus Two" meeting in July," the White House said in a statement. No specific date for Hillary Clinton's visit was provided. The top U.S. diplomat was already scheduled to travel to Asia next week, with high-level meetings in Beijing set for May 24-25.
