The leaders of Japan and South Korea are mending ties after years of animosity and bickering. The recent shift in tone is a shared focus on China’s growing aggressiveness and the threat of North Korea’s fast-improving arsenal of missiles.
The leaders of South Korea and Japan have opened up the possibility of forming a stronger trilateral security apparatus between Seoul, Tokyo and Washington during their next three-.
President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recognized the necessity of resuming high-level talks between South Korea, Japan and China when they held a summit in Tokyo last week. This came initially as a surprise, because the two countries have stressed the importance of the trilateral cooperation between Seoul, Tokyo and Washington to counter North Korea s nuclear threats.