Kishida Arrives in South Korea for Talks With Yoon Suk Yeol
11:25 JST, May 7, 2023 (updated at 13:00 JST)
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida left Haneda Airport in Tokyo on a government plane and arrived in Seoul on Sunday for a two-day trip to South Korea.
He is scheduled to meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul in the afternoon. The visit is intended to strengthen Japan-South Korea relations through resuming reciprocal visits, an initiative agreed upon during the leaders’ Tokyo summit in March.
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