Ministers from three countries vow to promote peace and cooperation in increasingly uncertain world
PUBLISHED : 22 Mar 2025 at 18: 45
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul shake hands as Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya looks on during a joint press conference after their meeting in Tokyo on March 22. (Photo: AFP)
TOKYO – Japan, South Korea and China agreed on Saturday that peace on the Korean peninsula was a shared responsibility, Seoul’s foreign minister said, in a meeting of the three countries’ top diplomats in which they pledged to promote cooperation.
The talks in Tokyo followed a rare summit in May in Seoul where the three neighbours — riven by historical and territorial disputes — agreed to deepen trade ties and restated their goal of a denuclearised Korean peninsula.
But they come as US tariffs loom over the region, and as concerns mount over North Korea’s weapons tests and its deployment of troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“We reaffirmed that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is a shared interest and responsibility of the three countrie
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