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In the first trilateral assembly since 2019, neighbors sought common ground on industry and culture, while tiptoeing forward to address thorny security issues.
By Choe Sang-Hun
Report from Seoul
The leaders of South Korea and Japan on Monday sought to repair economic cooperation with China, their biggest trading partner, after years of strained relations, their trialogue talks overshadowed by rising tensions between China and the United States, Seoul and Tokyo. allied with the army.
The trilateral assembly, which brings together South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Japanese Premier Fumio Kishida and Premier Li Qiang, China’s second-highest-ranking official, is the first in four-and-a-half years.
Discussions focused on areas where common ground can be found more easily, such as covering source chains, promoting industry, and cooperating in the face of the demanding situations of aging populations and emerging infectious diseases. The leaders tiptoed into thorny regional security issues. , such as those in Taiwan and North Korea.
“The three nations agreed to expand practical cooperation so that their people can feel the benefits,” Yoon said at a joint news conference with Kishida and M. Li, declaring 2025 and 2026 as “years of cultural exchange. “The 3 nations.
But on Monday, North Korea helped highlight major differences between the three neighbors. A few hours before the start of their meeting, he announced a plan to put an army spy satellite into orbit. Once the summit was over, he introduced a long-range rocket. carrying the satellite from its local station in northwestern North Korea.
United Nations Security Council resolutions prohibit the country from launching such rockets because they use the same generation to build intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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