(26 May 2024)
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Seongnam – 26 May 2024
1. Various of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida walking down plane steps
2. Various of Kishida greeting officials, walking along red carpet
3. Kishida’s car leaving
STORYLINE:
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida landed in South Korea on Sunday ahead of high-level trilateral talks which will also include China.
The meeting between Kishida, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese Premier Li Qiang will take place in Seoul on Monday, Kim Tae-hyo, Seoul’s deputy national security director, told a news conference.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will not be attending.
This is the leaders’ first trilateral meeting in more than four years, to discuss how to revive their cooperation, South Korea’s presidential office said Thursday.
After their inaugural stand-alone trilateral summit in 2008, the three countries’ leaders were supposed to hold such a meeting every year.
But the summit has been suspended since the last one in December 2019, in China, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and often complicated ties among the Asian neighbours.
Li and Kishida were expected to meet Yoon individually on Sunday afternoon before attending a welcoming dinner banquet with the South Korean president, Kim said. Japanese officials said a bilateral meeting between Kishida and Li remains undecided.
AP video shot by Yong Jun Chang
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