First Korea-Japan Summit... "Inheritance and Development of Relations through Shuttle Diplomacy"

Ishiba's first meeting in nine days...Handshake with a bright expression

Prime Minister Ishiba said, "Korea-Japan cooperation is very important for regional stability"

40-minute dialogue...Concerned about North Korea's threat, Russia-North Korea cooperation illegally agreed

"As it was the first meeting, we should not discuss pending issues such as past history."

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President Yoon Suk Yeol held his first summit with Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the occasion of his attendance at the ASEAN Summit.

The two leaders agreed to inherit and develop Korea-Japan relations by continuing shuttle diplomacy restored by President Yoon and former Prime Minister Kishida.Reporter Shin Yoon-jung reports from

Laos.

[Reporter]
President Yoon Suk Yeol held his first summit at a hotel in Vientiane, Laos' capital, nine days after Ishiba's inauguration.After President Yun

welcomed him with a handshake and repeatedly asked for a handshake in a commemorative photo, the two leaders began the summit with a bright expression.President

Yoon said in March last year that Korea-Japan relations have been developing positively since President Yoon's visit to Japan, and that we should promote the development of Korea-Japan relations through close communication.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President: Following former Prime Minister Kishida, I hope that the Prime Minister and I will continue to promote the development of Korea-Japan relations through active and close communication, including shuttle diplomacy]

To mark the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan next year, he emphasized the leap in relations that the people of the two countries can feel.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President: Presenting a promising future image of bilateral relations, so that the people of both countries can feel the leap forward in bilateral relations....]

Prime Minister Ishiba also agreed to continue shuttle diplomacy, saying that close cooperation between the two countries is important for regional stability and peace under the current strategic environment.

[Shigeru Ishiba / Japanese Prime Minister: I hope we can work closely with the President while also utilizing the shuttle diplomacy you mentioned]

At the 40-minute summit, the presidential office said, the two countries expressed concern about North Korea's missile threat and agreed that military cooperation between Russia and North Korea was also illegal.

In addition, we decided to cooperate to send a stern warning message to North Korea and those supporting it, saying that the responsibility for the escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula should not be passed on to Korea, South Korea, and Japan.

An official from the president's office explained, "However, since it was the first meeting, specific issues such as Korea-Japan relations and past history were not discussed at all."President

Yoon plans to wrap up his 5-night and 6-day trip home after the East Asia Summit, which includes 10 ASEAN countries, Korea, Japan, and China, and Russia and the United States.

I'm YTN Shin Yoon-jung from Vientiane.