November 01, 2015
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders from South Korea, China and Japan have concluded a rare three-way summit with a pledge to boost exchanges and dialogue and try to repair ties badly strained by history and territorial disputes.
The summit Sunday in Seoul was the first of its kind in more than three years. High-level contact between Tokyo and its two Asian neighbors nose-dived after hawkish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in late 2012.
A joint statement issued after the meeting said the sides agreed to try to improve ties by "facing history squarely and advancing toward the future." Beijing and Seoul see Abe as whitewashing Japan's wartime atrocities.
The countries also pledged to push for better economic ties and to try to resume stalled international negotiations on North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders from South Korea, China and Japan have concluded a rare three-way summit with a pledge to boost exchanges and dialogue and try to repair ties badly strained by history and territorial disputes.
The summit Sunday in Seoul was the first of its kind in more than three years. High-level contact between Tokyo and its two Asian neighbors nose-dived after hawkish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in late 2012.
A joint statement issued after the meeting said the sides agreed to try to improve ties by "facing history squarely and advancing toward the future." Beijing and Seoul see Abe as whitewashing Japan's wartime atrocities.
The countries also pledged to push for better economic ties and to try to resume stalled international negotiations on North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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