NEW : ` ` Rather than spending money on implements of war , feed your people , '' Clinton says . the U.S. Secretary of State says North Korea 's Kim Jung Un ` ` will chart a different course '' A few years after the Korean peninsula was divided after World War II , U.S. forces joined South Korea in the Korean War -- a conflict that ended in a cease-fire , but no peace treaty . The foreign and defense ministers of the U.S. and South Korea meet in Seoul . They jointly discuss their alliance , calling it a ` ` solution '' to assuring security in East Asia .
NEW : ` ` Rather than spending money on implements of war , feed your people , '' Clinton says . the U.S. Secretary of State says North Korea 's Kim Jung Un ` ` will chart a different course '' The foreign and defense ministers of the U.S. and South Korea meet in Seoul . They jointly discuss their alliance , calling it a ` ` solution '' to assuring security in East Asia .