Japan, South Korea, US Renew Cooperation Vow One Year After Historic Summit

Published on August 18, 2024

Leaders of Japan, South Korea, and the United States have renewed their commitment to security cooperation a year after their first trilateral summit. Marking the anniversary of a meeting among President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at Camp David, the leaders issued a joint statement on Sunday, renewing the pledge to consult with each other on “regional challenges, provocations, and threats affecting our collective interests and security.” In the trilateral summit last year, which was described as “unprecedented” because of historic tensions between Japan and South Korea—a former Japanese colony—leaders of the three countries called out the Chinese communist regime’s “dangerous and aggressive behavior” in the South China Sea, while Kishida said the nuclear and missile threat from North Korea was “becoming ever larger.”...

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