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The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan meet next week

2024-05-23 09:33:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan meet next week

The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for the first tripartite talks in more than four years, the South Korean presidency announced Thursday.

The trilateral meeting between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will be held in Seoul on Monday, Yoon's office said.

The three leaders will hold bilateral meetings with each other on Sunday, according to the announcement.

These three Asian countries held the first tripartite summit in 2008, and had agreed at the time to make it an annual summit between the leaders. But the summit was suspended in 2019, when they last met in China.

Efforts by the Asian neighbors to increase cooperation among themselves have often been stymied by a number of issues, including historical disputes stemming from Japan's wartime aggression and strategic competition between China and the United States.

Relations between South Korea and Japan deteriorated severely due to issues caused by Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula between 1910-1945.

But relations between them improved markedly since 2023, when they took a series of major steps to put that history behind them and strengthen cooperation in the face of common challenges, including North Korea's advanced nuclear program.

North Korea's growing nuclear arsenal poses a major security threat to South Korea and Japan.

But China, North Korea's only major ally and biggest aid supplier, is suspected of avoiding full implementation of United Nations sanctions against North Korea and secretly helping its impoverished neighbor to survivors. China is also suspected of serving as a bulwark against US influence on the Korean Peninsula. /REL 





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