WNAM MONITORING: Korea, China and Japan are likely to hold a long-stalled trilateral summit of their leaders on May 26 and 27, a news report said Friday.
The three countries have been in talks for the three-way summit in Seoul, and they reached an agreement on the summit date, according to Japanese private broadcaster JNN.
The trilateral summit was last held in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu in December 2019.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese Premier Li Qiang are expected to visit Seoul to meet with President Yoon Suk Yeol as South Korea is the current rotating chair.
The summit has been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and a deterioration in Seoul-Tokyo relations over the issue of compensating Korean victims of forced labor during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
Talks of reviving the summit gained momentum amid a dramatic warming of the Seoul-Tokyo relations after South Korea said in March last year it will compensate the Korean victims on its own without asking for contributions from Japanese companies.
