By Shannon Tiezzi
Shinzo Abe is also expected to have his first official bilateral summit with Park Geun-hye.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye was in Beijing this week for China’s military parade, and for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. During their talks, South Korea’sCheong Wa Dae revealed, Xi and Park agreed to hold a China-Japan-South Korea “trilateral summit in Korea at a mutually convenient date sometime at the end of October or the beginning of November.”
The announcement corresponds with previous reports that the three countries would hold a trilateral summit before the end of 2015. It will be the first such meeting since May 2012. Before that three-year gap, summits were held annually from 2008-2012.
While the announcement came after a bilateral meeting Park and Xi, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga suggested that Abe would be receptive. Japan “will continue communications with China and South Korea and work out a specific timing and venue,” Suga said, according to Kyodo News. He added that the leaders would likely discuss environmental issues and disaster risk reduction, as well as regional issues like North Korea’s nuclear program.
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