military allies, hosting a total of 80,000 American troops on their territories. The meeting Sunday was also the first since 2019. Instead, the summit has been suspended since 2019. Since they held their first stand-alone, trilateral summit in 2008, the leaders of the three countries were supposed to meet annually. ![]() Still, Kamikawa said that a reactivation of a trilateral diplomacy “is an important step toward achieving an upcoming Japan-China-South Korea summit.” The lack of an agreement on the timing for the trilateral summit would suggest the top-level gathering won’t likely happen this year as South Korea, the chair of the next summit, had hoped, observers say. The three also agreed to push for diverse cooperation projects in areas such as people-to-people exchange, trade, technology, public health, sustainable development and security, according to South Korean and Japanese statements. Kamikawa separately said the ministers agreed to speed up their work to achieve the summit “at an early and appropriate timing.” Park said the three ministers affirmed an earlier agreement by lower-level officials to restart the summit “at the earliest mutually convenient time” and agreed to expedite preparations for the meeting. “We three ministers agreed to restore and normalize three-nation cooperation at an early date,” South Korean Foreign Minister told reporters after his meeting with Japan’s Yoko Kamikawa and China’s Wang Yi in Busan, South Korea.
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