U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (2nd R), Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan (1st R), Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (2nd L) and Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya (1st L) participate in a joint press conference at the State Department in Washington D.C., the United States, on April 19, 2019. U.S. and Japanese senior officials met on Friday in Washington, discussing bilateral relations, cross-domain cooperation and the Korean Peninsula denuclearization, among other issues. (Xinhua/Ting Shen)