Free Trial

/JAPAN: S. Korean Leader To Visit Japan Next Week In Further Push To Mend Ties

SOUTH KOREA

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is expected to visit Japan at some point next week, with his office "closely looking at options" for the possible date of the summit, the Korea Herald reports.

  • Separately, Japan's junior coalition party Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi told a news conference that "Prime Minister Kishida has indicated that he would like to hold a summit with South Korea's Yoon Suk-yeol as early as late next week."
  • Kyodo news circulated a source report noting that Yoon could visit Tokyo on March 16-17, but there has been no official confirmation on that front, with both sides likely finalising the details of the visit.
  • Yoon's trip will be the first visit to Japan by a South Korean leader since 2019, albeit it was on the occasion of a G20 summit in Osaka. The leaders of South Korea and Japan used to exchange visits once a year, but the practice was discontinued in 2011.
  • The two East Asian democracies expressed their intention to return to regular bilateral summits as they managed to reach a breakthrough in their long-running spat over compensation for wartime forced labourers.
  • The Korea Herald reports that Yoon's diplomatic offensive in the coming months will also involve an April trip to Washington DC and a trilateral meeting with Japan's Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden on the fringes of the G7 summit in May.

To read the full story

Close

Why MNI

MNI is the leading provider

of intelligence and analysis on the Global Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange and Energy markets. We use an innovative combination of real-time analysis, deep fundamental research and journalism to provide unique and actionable insights for traders and investors. Our "All signal, no noise" approach drives an intelligence service that is succinct and timely, which is highly regarded by our time constrained client base.

Our Head Office is in London with offices in Chicago, Washington and Beijing, as well as an on the ground presence in other major financial centres across the world.