During a meeting in the South Korean port city of Busan on Sunday, the three Asian countries' foreign ministers agreed to step up cooperation in key areas, including security, and to lay the groundwork for what would be the first leaders' summit in four years.
While not expected to take place this year, the meeting between Xi of China, the South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, and the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, is expected in the near future, according to South Korea's national security adviser, Cho Tae-yong. The three ministers reaffirmed to hold the summit, the pinnacle of the trilateral cooperation system, at the earliest, mutually convenient time, South Korea's foreign minister, Park Jin, told reporters. We agreed to expedite the necessary preparations.
North Korea was also on the agenda during Sunday's 100-minute meeting, a few days after Pyongyang successfully put a spy satellite incorporating banned ballistic missile technology into orbit, in its latest show of defiance against UN-led sanction.
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