Japan and South Korea’s leaders promise closer ties
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung accepted the closer security and economic ties before Lee’s summit with US President Donald Trump.
During his first official visit to Japan since he took office in June, Lee met on his residence in Tokyo to discuss the binary bonds between the US and asian neighbors, including the US and closer security coordination under a triple pact signed by his predecessors.
Ishiba, after the meetings on Saturday, a joint statement with Lee, “both our country surrounding the strategic environment increases, the importance of our relations and the United States continues to grow in three -sided cooperation with the United States.” He said.
Leaders agreed to continue service diplomacy, expand changes such as working holiday programs, and increase cooperation in defense, economic security, artificial intelligence and other fields.
They also promised to coordinate closer to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
Liberal Lee’s Instant Election Victory – Conservative President Yoon Suk -yeol’s declaration of martial law – Tokyo expressed concerns that relations with Seoul may be sour.
Lee criticized Japan’s efforts to improve the ties of anger on the colonial administration of the 1910-45 Korean Peninsula.
Last week, the South Korean government, Japanese officials in Tokyo after visiting Japan’s war after visiting Japan as a symbol of Japan’s war -time aggression “deep disappointment and regret,” he said.
However, in Tokyo, LEE was supported by Japan, and as it was when Ishiba first met Ishiba between a group of seven peaks in Canada for the first time.
Despite their differences, the two US allies are largely relying on Washington to resist the increasing regional influence of China.
Together, they are home to about 80,000 US troops, dozens of American warships and hundreds of military planes.
“We acknowledged that the unchanging cooperation between South Korea, USA and Japan is very important in rapidly changing international situations, and we decided to create a virtuous cycle of the development of South Korean-Japanese relations, leading to stronger cooperation,” he said.
On Monday, Lee and Trump in Washington are expected to discuss their financial contributions for the US forces deployed in South Korea in China, North Korea and Seoul – something that the US leader presses it over and over again.
