Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and his spouse, Yuko Kishida, head towards a automobile after arriving at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, south of Seoul, Sept. 6, for a summit with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Korea Times photograph by Choi Won-suk
President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held talks in Seoul on Friday to debate methods to deepen bilateral cooperation as Kishida is making ready to go away workplace with a legacy of enhancing long-frayed relations with Seoul.
Kishida arrived for a two-day go to for talks with Yoon, their twelfth summit in nearly two years. It will even be their final summit as Kishida has given up on reelection as prime minister and chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party after three years on the job.
During the summit, the 2 leaders plan to look again on the achievement of cooperation between the 2 international locations and focus on methods to additional transfer bilateral, regional and worldwide cooperation ahead, in line with Yoon’s workplace.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, second from left, and his spouse, Yuko Kishida, left, are welcomed by a Korean official upon arrival at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Sept. 6, for his final summit with Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. Korea Times photograph by Choi Won-suk
Yoon and Kishida have developed shut bonds after Yoon determined final 12 months to resolve the long-running row over Japan’s wartime mobilization of Koreans for pressured labor by compensating victims with out asking Japanese companies for contributions.
The two leaders have since restored the long-suspended “shuttle diplomacy” of visiting one another at any time when essential and held a collection of conferences on the sidelines of worldwide conferences.
The restored ties have additionally considerably bolstered trilateral safety cooperation with the United States in response to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
In August 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden invited Yoon and Kishida to Camp David for a standalone summit, the place the three leaders dedicated to strengthen joint responses to North Korea’s threats and different regional safety challenges. (Yonhap)