Yoon's office reviewing Japan's proposal for four-way summit with Australia, NZ
President Yoon Suk-yeol takes reporters' questions as he arrives at the presidential office in Seoul's Yongsan District, June 20. Yonhap
The presidential office is reviewing Japan's proposal for a four-way summit with the leaders of Australia and New Zealand on the sidelines of a NATO gathering in Spain next week, an official said Monday.
President Yoon Suk-yeol is scheduled to attend a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Madrid, June 29 and 30 on his first overseas trip as president.
Korea is not a member of the military alliance but has been invited as a partner nation, along with countries including Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Yoon's office has received Japan's proposal for a four-way summit, and the presidential National Security Office is reviewing it, the presidential official told reporters.
Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun carried a report the same day saying the Japanese government is considering holding such a summit as a way to express the four countries' opposition to China's assertiveness in the East and South China Seas, among other matters. (Yonhap)