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| Minister Park Jin, left, shakes hands with Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi at the start of their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 Summit leaders' meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, May 20. EPA-Yonhap |
The top diplomats of Korea and Japan held talks Saturday to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation on global issues.
In the meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Yoshimasa Hayashi, at a hotel in Hiroshima, Foreign Minister Park Jin assessed that bilateral ties have normalized following President Yoon Suk Yeol's visit to Japan in March and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Korean trip earlier this month.
Park further expressed hopes to continue efforts to improve bilateral relations, and cooperate on regional and global issues through consultations with Hayashi, and a summit scheduled between Yoon and Kishida, Sunday.
Hayashi said he was pleased with the swift resumption of the so-called shuttle diplomacy made possible through the resolute decisions by the leaders of Korea and Japan. He also expressed his wish to cooperate to further solidify ties between the two countries. (Yonhap)
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