South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in will visit Tokyo next week for a three-way summit with the leaders of Japan and China, with North Korea’s denuclearisation and peace settlement on the Korean peninsula on the agenda.
The trilateral meeting on Wednesday will be the first of its kind since 2015 and comes after last Friday’s historic summit between the two Koreas, in which they reaffirmed their commitment to dismantling Pyongyang’s nuclear programme and declaring the end of the 1950-53 Korean war.
It will also be the first visit of an incumbent South Korean leader to Japan in six years. Mr Moon and Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe will hold separate talks after their trilateral meeting with Chinese premier Li Keqiang.