Biden Proposes South Korea-US-Japan Summit Within the Year... Yoon "Looking Forward to the Meeting" (Comprehensive)

by Kim Heungsoon

Published 12 Oct.2024 09:21(KST)

Updated 12 Oct.2024 10:10(KST)

Blinken, US Secretary of State, Delivers President Biden's Message to Yoon
Presidential Office: "Intention to Continue Trilateral Cooperation Regardless of US Election Variables"

U.S. President Joe Biden proposed to South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to hold a South Korea-U.S.-Japan summit within this year.


President Yoon Suk-yeol is shaking hands with U.S. President Joe Biden at the South Korea-U.S. summit held last July at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joint Press Corps.

President Yoon Suk-yeol is shaking hands with U.S. President Joe Biden at the South Korea-U.S. summit held last July at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joint Press Corps.

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According to the Blue House on the 12th, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken conveyed President Biden's message to hold a South Korea-U.S.-Japan summit within this year, continuing the spirit of Camp David, during a dinner hosted by the Prime Minister of Laos on the 10th (local time) on the sidelines of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit.


President Yoon responded, "Understood well. We will communicate closely going forward. I expect there will be an opportunity to meet within this year."


A Blue House official explained, "This is understood as an intention to firmly continue the South Korea-U.S.-Japan cooperative framework regardless of the new Japanese Prime Minister's inauguration or variables in the U.S. presidential election."

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