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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday in San Francisco, in accordance with Yoon’s workplace.
The leaders posed for {a photograph} collectively earlier than leaving with out making remarks on the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit, information company Yonhap reported. The temporary assembly comes three months after the leaders met at Camp David in August for talks.
Yoon and Kishida promised to push for deeper cooperation in a separate assembly earlier Friday, Yoon’s workplace mentioned.
“This year, bilateral cooperation is deepening with the reactivation of exchanges at each level, including at the summit level, and the restoration of consultation bodies between our governments,” Yoon was quoted as saying in a media pool report.
Kishida mentioned he hopes to push ahead with cooperation in politics, safety ensures, the financial system and tradition.
The 2 additionally mentioned North Korea’s continued nuclear and missile checks and dedicated to working along with america on responding to the North, Japan’s international ministry mentioned in a press release.
The pair met on Thursday, a day earlier than they have been resulting from attend a roundtable on technological cooperation at Stanford College.
They’re anticipated to announce a joint provide community for carbon-neutral fuels comparable to hydrogen and ammonia, the enterprise day by day has reported.
Yoon has made it a precedence to fix ties with Japan since taking workplace in Might 2022, and to revive trilateral safety cooperation with america as North Korea ramps up its weapons packages and brazenly threatens the South.
The strikes haven’t all the time been fashionable at residence, the place many South Koreans consider Japan has not carried out sufficient to atone for its 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula.
Kishida additionally attended the summit with Biden in August, pledging alongside the opposite two nations to deepen army and financial cooperation and restore an alliance geared toward countering North Korea’s threats and China’s rising affect.