TOKYO/SEOUL/YOKOHAMA – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol are unlikely to hold official bilateral talks or meet on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Madrid on Wednesday and Thursday, a South Korean presidential official was quoted by the country’s Yonhap news agency as saying Sunday. The NATO summit had initially
Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand are considering holding a four-way summit on the fringes of a NATO leaders gathering in Spain next week, a source close to the South Korean presidential office said Monday. The envisaged meeting during the NATO gathering is seen by the four nations as an attempt to keep an
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi left Monday for South Korea to attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, with attention focused on whether his visit as a special envoy of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can help improve soured bilateral ties. Arrangements are being made for Hayashi to hold talks with Yoon and incoming South Korean
SEOUL/TOKYO – North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Saturday, South Korean military said, three days before the inauguration of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol — who has vowed to take a hard line against the North — and the visit of the U.S. president. South Korean military said North Korea fired what is believed
U.S. President Joe Biden is set to visit South Korea and Japan next month — his first trip to Asia since taking office — as Washington aims to boost ties with its key allies in a region confronting rising tensions with China and a nuclear-armed North Korea. Biden, who will visit South Korea followed by
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and members of a delegation sent by South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol pledged Monday to improve the two nation’s ties, which have sharply deteriorated over wartime issues, the delegation’s leader said. The two sides agreed that they will “maintain and beef up” bilateral relations, and that they share the same ideas
Seoul – South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, in an interview with The Washington Post on Thursday, expressed confidence that his country’s relations with Japan will improve. Relations between the Asian neighbors have been strained, mainly over issues related to Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945. “When I am president, South
