But no major breakthrough was expected during the gathering in Seoul.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are seen during a meeting at the Presidential Office in Seoul on May 26, 2024. | Ahn Young-joon/APSEOUL, South Korea — Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan were set to meet Monday for their first trilateral meeting in more than four years as they seek to improve long-complicated relations that are key to regional peace.
Kishida referred to China’s military assertiveness in the South China Sea, clampdowns on pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong and human rights abuses against minorities in Xinjiang. Last week, China also launched a large military exercise around Taiwan to show its anger over the inauguration of the island’s new president who refuses to accept its insistence that Taiwan is part of China.
In a development that could further raise tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Japan’s coast guard said Monday that North Korea informed it of a plan to launch a satellite by early next week, a likely reference to the North’s push to place its second military spy satellite. North Korea has said it needs spy satellites to better monitor South Korea and the United States and improve the precision-striking capabilities of its missiles.
South Korea and Japan are both key U.S. allies in the region. Their moves to bolster their trilateral security partnership with the United States have drawn rebukes from China.
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