November 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, and the South Korean President, Yoon Suk Yeol, will hold a bilateral meeting in Cambodia this Sunday in the framework of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit that is taking place these days in Phnom Penh. , as reported by the South Korean and Japanese authorities.
A spokesman for the South Korean Presidency quoted by the Yonhap news agency explained that the agreement was reached this Saturday during the participation of both leaders in the summit of the multinational organization.
Both parties have agreed on the need to hold a meeting given the importance of cooperation in security matters due to the “growing provocations” of North Korea and after the “impulse” of trilateral South Korea-Japan-United States cooperation. , according to Yonhap.
Yoon will meet with Kishida and then meet US President Joe Biden and Kishida himself in a trilateral meeting. Kishida and Yoon have met only twice so far, the last one a brief meeting in September in New York coinciding with the UN General Assembly.
Bilateral relations are still hampered by Japan’s actions during its colonial rule over Korea between 1910 and 1945, during which the Imperial Japanese Army committed a spectrum of atrocities, including forced labor and sexual slavery.
