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President Yoon, Kishida and the day after tomorrow’s summit meeting and lunch… “Discuss normalization of relations”
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President Yoon Seok-yeol will visit Tokyo, Japan the day after tomorrow (16th) for 2 days and 1 night.
On the first day, I will hold the Korea-Japan summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and return home the next afternoon.
The President’s Office gave the meaning that Korea-Japan relations will enter the normalization period and it will be an opportunity to reorganize exchanges.
This is Reporter Jung Joo-hee.
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President Yoon arrives in Tokyo on the morning of the 16th and begins his two-day, one-night schedule with a lunch meeting with local compatriots.
The Korea-Japan summit with Prime Minister Kishida will be held in the afternoon of the first day.
After the summit, the two leaders are due to hold a press conference together, and the possibility of issuing a joint statement is also being discussed.
Afterwards, the two leaders will have lunch at a restaurant around Ginza, and then proceed to a 128-year-old lighthouse for lunch.
On the morning of the second day, I will meet with former Prime Ministers Aso and Suga of the Korea-Japan Senatorial Alliance.
After that, he attends a business roundtable meeting held by the Federation of Korean Industries and Keidanren, where the future fundraising in which Korean and Japanese companies are participating can be announced.
President Yoon plans to deliver a speech at Keio University in Tokyo to expand the consensus between future generations in both countries to Korean and Japanese university students.
During her visit to Japan, First Lady Kim Kun-hee will also hold various schedules, including a meeting with Yuko Kishida.
It has been around four years since former President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Japan in June 2019 that a Korean head of state has visited Japan, and it is also the first time a South Korean and Japanese leader has visited the country another and hold talks in Japan. person since President Yoon took office.
The President’s office emphasized that it is meaningful to announce that Korea-Japan relations have entered the normalization period.
It is expected that the Japanese side’s position on the Korean government’s solution to forced labor will determine the success or failure of this summit.
“The two leaders will discuss ways to normalize Korea-Japan relations in general, including action after the announcement of the solution to the forced labor award issue….”
Attention is focused on whether this visit to Japan can be a sign to restore ‘shuttle diplomacy’, which has been suspended since December 2011, for the first time in 12 years.
This is Yonhap News TV Jung Joo-hee. (gee@yna.co.kr)
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