SEOUL: South Korean, Chinese and Japanese leaders met in Seoul on Monday (May 27) for their first trilateral summit in nearly five years, after nuclear-armed North Korea announced plans to put another satellite into orbit. There are
South Korea 's President Yoon Suk Yeol, Japan 's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and China 's Premier Li Qiang attend the trilateral summit meeting at the Blue House in Seoul on May 27, 2024. SEOUL: South Korea n, Chinese and Japan ese leaders met in Seoul on Monday for their first trilateral summit in nearly five years, after nuclear-armed North Korea announced plans to put another satellite into orbit.
"Any launch using ballistic missile technology would directly violate UN Security Council resolutions and undermine regional and global peace and stability," Yoon said in his opening remarks, before going into the talks. Kishida called on the North to"stop the launch", before heading into what he said he hoped would be"in-depth discussions" with his counterparts"on how concrete cooperation can be pursued in line with the present era".
China is North Korea's largest trading partner and a key diplomatic ally, and it has previously resisted condemning Pyongyang for its weapons tests, instead criticising joint US-South Korea drills for raising tension. Experts have warned that, due to the three countries' starkly divergent positions on key issues including Pyongyang's nuclear threats and growing ties with Russia, it will be hard for them to form a consensus on tricky geopolitical issues.
Seoul should use the trilateral meeting"to overcome the limitations of the tilted diplomacy with Washington and Tokyo and reconstruct the framework of trilateral diplomacy of South Korea, China and Japan, which has been out of favour for some time", The Hankyoreh said.Nuclear-armed North Korea launched its first reconnaissance satellite last November in a move that drew international condemnation, with the United States calling it a"brazen violation" of UN sanctions.
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