S.Korea’s Yoon to meet U.S., Japan leaders in Spain during NATO summit
By Joori Roh and Daniel Leussink
SEOUL/YOKOHAMA (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will meet leaders of america and Japan on Wednesday throughout the North Atlantic Treaty Group (NATO) summit in Madrid, an official on the presidential workplace stated on Sunday.
The trilateral assembly, which might be the primary such gathering since September 2017, is scheduled to for two:30 p.m., although adjustments will be made, the official stated.
President Yoon and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida aren’t prone to maintain a separate assembly, the official added.
Individually, a Japanese authorities official additionally informed Reuters that the three leaders will maintain a gathering on June 29.
Earlier this week, South Korea stated it deliberate to arrange a delegation to NATO in Brussels as Seoul pushes to strengthen its partnership with the organisation and play an even bigger position on the worldwide stage.
Yoon, who was sworn in on Might 10, would be the first South Korean president to attend a NATO summit, because the nation, together with Japan, Australia and New Zealand, has been invited because the organisation’s Asia-Pacific companions.
Whereas the June 29-30 assembly in Madrid is predicted to give attention to the Ukraine disaster, Yoon plans to drum up worldwide cooperation in opposition to North Korea’s nuclear programme, the presidential workplace stated.
(Reporting by Joori Roh in Seoul and Daniel Leussink in Yokohama; Enhancing by Christopher Cushing)
