TOKYO/SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday he had a good discussion with President Lee Jae Myung during their first summit in Canada earlier this week, noting that they “aligned on views” on shared issues. Ishiba made the remark at an event in Tokyo held to celebrate the 60th [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The official website for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit has been launched, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The website (www.apec2025.kr) introduces key agenda items and priorities to be discussed at the upcoming leaders’ gathering, set to take place in South Korea’s southeastern region of Gyeongju, in November. It also [...]
LIMA, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol will hold a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru on Friday, the presidential office said Thursday. It will be their second summit since their first meeting in Indonesia in November 2022. “The two [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — 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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol raised the issue of the 2016 killing of a Korean businessman in the Philippines during his recent summit with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., asking for Manila’s support in arresting and punishing the main culprit on the run, his office said Thursday. Yoon raised concerns [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is in talks with China and Japan to hold a long-stalled trilateral summit of their leaders around May 26-27, a news report said Wednesday. The three countries have entered into final consultations about holding the three-way summit in South Korea late next month, according to the Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is in talks with China and Japan to set a specific date to host a long-stalled trilateral summit next month, a foreign ministry official said Friday. “We are currently discussing the date of the summit in Seoul, and we will let you know the specific date as [...]
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States on Monday reiterated the importance of dialogue with North Korea, after Pyongyang claimed Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has expressed his intention for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of the North Korean leader, said that Kishida recently made [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, China and Japan are set to hold a series of meetings in Seoul on Monday to discuss resuming the long-stalled summit of their leaders. The deputy director-general meetings come a day before high-level talks among South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Chung Byung-won, Takehiro Funakoshi, Japan’s senior deputy [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry said Monday it sees the “possibility” of a summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid speculation about Kim’s possible trip to Russia. The assessment by defense ministry spokesperson Jeon Ha-kyu came amid media reports that Kim and Putin could [...]