By Diplomacy Journal Lee Jon-young President Lee Jae-myung held a South Korea-Japan summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Busan on September 30. The two leaders exchanged broad and in-depth views on ways to strengthen practical cooperation between South Korea and Japan and the necessity of cooperation at the regional and global levels. The two leaders welcomed the completion of shuttle diplomacy between the two countries, marked by Prime Minister Ishiba's visit to Busan just one month after President Lee's visit to Japan last month. They also expressed full agreement on
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Jon-young President Yoon Suk-yeol held his second summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Nov. 16 (local time), discussing the situation in Northeast Asia and North Korea's troop deployment to Russia. President Yoon assessed that “close cooperation between Japan and South Korea is more important than ever,” while Prime Minister Ishiba described the situation as “grave.” “Since the first summit (last month), the regional and global situation has been changing rapidly, with military cooperation between Russia and North Korea leading to the deployment of Nor