Seoul (EFE) Japan to the neighboring country in more than twelve years.
Kishida arrived in Seoul this Sunday to start a two-day official visit and was received by Yoon in his residential office before the joint meeting in which he hopes they will strengthen traveling diplomacy between the two countries, in addition to discussing the North Korean threat and historical quarrels. From the past.
“In less than two months since the summit was held in Tokyo, relations between South Korea and Japan are clearly showing improvement. I feel the responsibility to create a good period in our bilateral relations that is even better than the good times of the past,” the South Korean president said at the beginning of the meeting.
Kishida, for his part, thanked Yoon for the welcome and expressed his intention to fully restore the “shuttle diplomacy” between Japan and South Korea, and said he looks forward to exchanging views on ways to advance the bilateral relationship. .
Itinerant diplomacy refers to that which is carried out with periodic meetings between government representatives at various levels in order to lay the foundations to solve a thorny common problem, in this case the open wounds between Japan and South Korea during the Japanese colonial period. of the peninsula, which has been weighing down their relations in recent years.
Today’s meeting between the two leaders comes a few weeks before the leaders of the Group of Seven most developed countries (G7) meet in the Japanese city of Hiroshima (west), to which Kishida also invited his South Korean counterpart, as well as representatives of other countries.
This Monday, Kishida also plans to hold meetings with members of an association of parliamentarians from South Korea and Japan and heads of business groups in the South.