▲President Yoon Seo-yeol, U.S. President Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands at the Korea-U.S.-Japan summit meeting held on the sidelines of the G7 Hiroshima Summit on May 21, 2018/Office of the President of the Republic of Korea
South Korea, the United States, and Japan announced at the same time that they would hold a summit meeting in the United States on August 18, attended by South Korean President Yoon Sung-ryul, US President Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The leaders of South Korea, the US, and Japan have previously held talks on the sidelines of international conferences, but this is the first time they have met separately for a trilateral summit. “At this (trilateral) summit, the leaders will reaffirm the firm alliance and strong friendship between the United States, Japan, and South Korea and the United States, and celebrate a new chapter in trilateral relations,” the White House said. ..
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▲President Yoon Seo-yeol, U.S. President Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands at the Korea-U.S.-Japan summit meeting held on the sidelines of the G7 Hiroshima Summit on May 21, 2018/Office of the President of the Republic of Korea
South Korea, the United States, and Japan announced at the same time that they would hold a summit meeting in the United States on August 18, attended by South Korean President Yoon Sung-ryul, US President Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The leaders of South Korea, the US, and Japan have previously held talks on the sidelines of international conferences, but this is the first time they have met separately for a trilateral summit. “At this (trilateral) summit, the leaders will reaffirm the firm alliance and strong friendship between the United States, Japan, and South Korea and the United States, and celebrate a new chapter in trilateral relations,” the White House said. pointed out.
The US president’s villa Camp David, where the trilateral summit will be held, is a historic place where successive US presidents made important agreements that changed the course of world history. In 1959, the first summit meeting between President Eisenhower and General Secretary Khrushchev of the Soviet Communist Party was held here, and in 1978, the Middle East peace negotiations were held through the mediation of President Carter. President Biden had never invited a foreign leader there since taking office in 2021, but this time he invited President Yoon and Prime Minister Kishida. President Yoon will be the first South Korean president to visit Camp David in 15 years since President Lee Myung-bak in 2008.
When President Biden learned that a vice-ministerial level meeting between South Korea, the United States, and Japan would be held in Hawaii in 2016 when he was vice president, he rushed to the meeting on a different schedule and gave a special speech. Some observers speculate that Biden, who has placed the highest emphasis on trilateral cooperation among all U.S. presidents, is seeking to take South Korea-U.S.-Japan cooperation to a new level through the Trilateral Summit at Camp David.
The trilateral summit, the fourth since President Yoon took office, was made possible because President Yoon, who took office in May last year, remained unwavering and worked to improve relations between South Korea and Japan. The former Moon Jae-in administration deliberately left South Korea-Japan relations untouched in order to use anti-Japanese sentiment in domestic politics. At the administration level, he sang “Chikuyari-ga” (edited anti-Japanese song) while viewing Japan as an enemy, never dreaming of cooperation among the three countries.
The summit meeting at Camp David will be held in a situation where the world situation is uncertain, including the economic conflict between the United States and China and the prolonged Russian invasion of Ukraine. With North Korea, China, and Russia showing signs of solidarity in Northeast Asia, the leaders of South Korea, the United States, and Japan need to further strengthen their defenses to deter North Korea’s provocations. Cooperation among the three countries also serves as a core solidarity to protect liberal and democratic systems not only in Northeast Asia but around the world. In the process, it goes without saying that South Korea’s national status will also rise one notch. Never repeat the folly of pitting the past against the present and holding back the country’s future.
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2023-07-31 02:05:00
