In this file photo dated Aug 17, 2022, ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol delivers a speech during his news conference to mark his first 100 days in office at the presidential office in Seoul. (CHUNG SUNG-JUN / POOL / AFP)
SEOUL – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will attend meetings of ASEAN and the Group of 20 industrialized nations this month, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
South Korea is arranging a possible bilateral summit between Yoon and US President Joe Biden as well as a trilateral summit involving the United States and Japan on the sidelines of the events, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
Nothing has been decided regarding a possible one-on-one meeting between South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Yonhap said
"We are arranging summits with key countries on the occasion of attending the ASEAN and G20 meetings," Yoon's national security adviser, Kim Sung-han, told a briefing.
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Nothing has been decided regarding a possible one-on-one meeting between Yoon and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Yonhap said.
The latest in-person meeting between Yoon and Kishida was in September. The two leaders agreed then on the need to improve relations dogged by historical disputes.
Yoon, who took office in May, has been keen to improve relations with Tokyo.
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The September meeting, which took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, was the first between leaders of the two countries since 2019.