Yoon to hold summit with Japanese PM in Peru
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during a summit at Vientiane, Laos, Oct. 10. Yonhap
President Yoon Suk Yeol will hold a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the sidelines of an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Peru this week, his office said Thursday.
Yoon and Ishiba will hold their second meeting on the margins of the APEC summit to take place in Lima on Friday and Saturday, and "affirm their firm commitment to developing relations between South Korea and Japan," which mark 60 years since the normalization of ties next year, the presidential office said in a press release.
Yoon is also scheduled to hold a series of bilateral meetings with the leaders of Vietnam, Brunei, Canada and other Asia-Pacific nations.
During the APEC summit, Yoon plans to condemn North Korea's involvement in Russia's war in Ukraine and outline South Korea's aims as host of next year's APEC summit in the southeastern city of Gyeongju.
Yoon is set to depart for a two-nation tour that will take him to Peru for the APEC summit and then to Brazil for a Group of 20 summit. (Yonhap)