U.S.-Japan leaders ‘ultra-close’…3 months after meeting separately.

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President Yoon Seok-yeol, who is visiting the United States to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, is taking a commemorative photo with U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on the 16th (local time). [Yonhap]

[Herald Economy (San Francisco) = Reporter Jung Yoon-hee] President Yoon Seok-yeol, who is visiting San Francisco, USA, to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, met with U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the 16th (local time).

The meeting of the three leaders from South Korea, the United States, and Japan is the first in three months since the Camp David summit in Washington D.C. in August. This is also the fifth time President Yoon has met with them since his inauguration (once individually, four times at multilateral conferences).

After attending the second summit of the India-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) in the afternoon of the same day, President Yoon had a separate meeting with President Biden and Prime Minister Kishida, which also included a commemorative photo session. The three leaders also had a brief two-minute meeting, which included greetings and a photo session, at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 21.

Although it was a brief encounter, the fact that the three leaders gathered in one place is significant given the packed schedule of multilateral conferences. It is interpreted as an action to show the close cooperative relationship among the three countries to the international community. President Yoon also had his seventh Korea-Japan summit this year with Prime Minister Kishida in the morning, meeting him again two months after their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in India in September.