During the talks, the two sides discussed ways to boost multilateral cooperation amid growing threats from neighboring countries and to develop their defense fields in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, according to the ministry.

They, in particular, shared the need to boost cooperation in cybersecurity, it added.    

Park also held a bilateral meeting with Khamsy Vongkhamsao, permanent secretary of defense in Laos, and agreed to swiftly clinch a memorandum of understanding their defense cooperation.

The vice-ministerial forum is set to close later in the day after three days of active discussions and meetings among government officials and security experts from more than 50 countries, according to its organizer, the defense ministry. (Yonhap)