The Sankei Shimbun reported today that the Japanese government has begun coordination towards holding a Korea-Japan and Korea-US-Japan summit on the 21st, which is the last day of the Hiroshima Summit of the seven major countries which will open on the 19th. .
If a separate Korea-Japan summit is held on the 21st, it will be held three times in about two months, following on March 16th and 7th of this month.
On the 21st, President Yoon Seok-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit and pay their respects to the Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Memorial in Hiroshima Peace Park.
The Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Association estimates that around 50,000 Koreans were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 after crossing over to Japan from the Korean Peninsula through forced labour, of which around 30,000 died.
No South Korean president has ever visited the Hiroshima Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Memorial, and Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi has visited in 1999.
