The second meeting between the leaders of Japan and South Korea in two months was another victory for the administration of US President Joe Biden. Bloomberg. The agency states that Washington wants to unite its allies to “cooperate against North Korea and undermine China’s growing power.”
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in Seoul on Sunday to meet with South Korean President Yun Suk-yeol. “Countries seek to strengthen trade and military cooperation with the United States, without forgetting the importance of maintaining sustainable ties with China, their largest trading partner,” the article says.
Bloomberg writes that the Biden administration has sought help from partners like Seoul and Tokyo to impose harsh restrictions on the sale of advanced chip equipment to China.
As Shin Kak Su, former Korean Ambassador to Japan points out, US efforts could be a factor in re-establishing ties between Seoul and Tokyo. According to him, Japan and Korea began to worry about the unstable security situation, the problem of countering the North Korean nuclear threat and the Chinese threat.
The last visit of the Japanese prime minister to South Korea was in 2018, when Shinzo Abe attended the opening of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and held separate talks with then-President Moon Jae-in. The last official bilateral summit between Japan and Korea took place in October 2011 in Seoul.
Visit of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Will be First for a Japanese premiere in South Korea in five years. The leaders of the two countries will discuss North Korea’s nuclear missile program. Tokyo plans to enlist Seoul’s support ahead of the G7 summit in Hiroshima (May 19-21), to which Yoon Seok Yeol is also invited.
Former US President Joe Biden intend To discuss further aid from Seoul to Kiev with Yun Sok-yeol, the president of South Korea.