It has been reported that the Office of the President is in the final stages of coordinating the schedule for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to visit Korea for a two-day, one-night visit around the 6th to hold a summit with President Yoon Seok-yeol. If Prime Minister Kishida visits Korea and holds a summit with President Yoon, it will be his second visit to Korea this year and the 12th Korea-Japan summit since President Yoon took office.
A senior official at the Blue House met with reporters on the 1st and said regarding Prime Minister Kishida’s visit to Korea, “We are coordinating the specific schedule and final agenda.” Regarding the possibility that Prime Minister Kishida will visit Korea for two days and one night on the 6th of this month, the official was cautious in his comments, saying, “It is international practice for both countries to announce (the schedule for the visit) together on a set date.”
If this summit is realized, it will likely be the last official meeting between Prime Minister Kishida and President Yoon, who will be stepping down at the end of this month. Prime Minister Kishida has already announced that he will not run in the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party presidential election scheduled for the 27th of this month. Japan has adopted a parliamentary cabinet system in which the leader of the majority party becomes prime minister, but Prime Minister Kishida has given up on becoming the next prime minister.
Regarding Prime Minister Kishida’s upcoming visit to Korea and meeting with President Yoon, diplomatic circles are interpreting this as “an attempt to confirm and emphasize the importance of Korea-Japan and Korea-US-Japan cooperation, which were major achievements during his term.” Japan’s Kyodo News reported that after his visit to Korea, Prime Minister Kishida is coordinating a plan to visit the United States starting on the 22nd of this month to attend the Quad Summit, a security consultative body among the United States, Japan, Australia, and India. In the press conference where he declared that he would not run for the presidential election, Prime Minister Kishida cited the improvement of Korea-Japan relations as his major achievement, emphasizing that “next year, the 60th anniversary of the normalization of Korea-Japan diplomatic relations, we must make the normalization of Korea-Japan relations even more certain.”
Reporter Kodo Yea [email protected]
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2024-09-01 18:07:19