Top diplomats of S. Korea, Japan to hold talks next week: Seoul foreign ministry

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This picture, offered by South Korea’s overseas ministry, Nov. 15, 2024, reveals International Minister Cho Tae-yul, proper, and his Japanese counterpart, Takeshi Iwaya, assembly on the margins of the Asia Pacific Financial Cooperation assembly in Lima, Peru, Nov. 14. Yonhap

The highest diplomats of South Korea and Japan will maintain talks early subsequent week on bilateral relations and different shared points, Seoul’s overseas ministry stated Friday,

The talks between International Minister Cho Tae-yul and Japanese International Minister Takeshi Iwaya will happen in Seoul on Monday, the ministry stated in a message to reporters, with out offering additional particulars.

The upcoming talks come as South Korea is working to reassure overseas companions that it stays succesful and dedicated to diplomatic engagement regardless of the political turmoil following President Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched try and impose martial regulation and his subsequent impeachment.

It’ll mark the primary one-on-one assembly between Cho and Iwaya, other than their talks on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation discussion board in Peru final November.

The management vacuum in South Korea has raised issues that it might weaken coverage coordination with the US, Japan and different key companions amid rising army threats from North Korea and its deepening ties with Russia.

Japan, together with the US, has expressed confidence in South Korea and its democratic course of.

Monday’s talks are anticipated to heart on discussions on efforts to proceed the optimistic momentum for the bilateral relations which have considerably improved since Yoon got here into workplace.

In March final yr, Yoon introduced a choice that South Korea will compensate its victims of Japan’s wartime compelled labor with out contributions from accountable Japanese corporations.

His determination has led to the resumption of „shuttle diplomacy,“ or common visits by the 2 nations‘ leaders, and varied exchanges at each the federal government and personal sector ranges.

Additionally excessive on the agenda will seemingly be preparations for celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the normalization of bilateral relations this yr.

The 2 sides are additionally anticipated to debate efforts to facilitate a deliberate trilateral summit involving China, with Japan internet hosting the three-way assembly this yr. (Yonhap)