President Yoon Suk Yeol (left) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake fingers throughout their assembly in Washington, D.C., on this file photograph taken July 10, 2024, on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Group summit. (Yonhap)
South Korea and Japan have been in last-minute preparations for the agenda of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s go to, a senior official on the workplace of President Yoon Suk Yeol mentioned Sunday.
“Closing preparations on the itinerary and agenda are being mentioned,” the senior presidential official instructed reporters, with out offering additional particulars.
Japan’s Kyodo Information earlier reported Kishida was contemplating holding summit talks with Yoon in South Korea in early September earlier than stepping down from workplace, citing diplomatic sources.
Bilateral relations between Seoul and Tokyo have considerably warmed since South Korea determined in March final yr to resolve the problem of compensating Korean compelled labor victims throughout Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula with out asking for contributions from Japanese corporations.
Yoon and Kishida have prioritized bolstering trilateral safety cooperation between the Asian neighbors and their shared ally, the US, amid rising safety threats posed by North Korea. (Yonhap)
