Posted on 05/08/2018 4:24:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The leaders of Japan, China and South Korea are to reaffirm that they will work closely together to achieve the denuclearization of North Korea.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will hold talks in Tokyo on Wednesday in the first 3-way summit in 2-and-a-half years.
Li is the first Chinese leader to visit Japan in 7 years. Moon's visit is the first by a South Korean leader in 6-and-a-half years.
The 3 leaders will discuss North Korea ahead of the planned meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
They are expected to praise the outcome of the recent summit between Moon and Kim, and reaffirm the need to fully implement the UN Security Council sanctions resolutions against Pyongyang.
On other topics, they are likely to ensure that their countries will cooperate in such fields as finance and energy and promote free trade.
The leaders will also agree to speed up negotiations on a free trade agreement between the 3 nations and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
They plan to issue a joint statement after the summit.
Abe will hold separate meetings with Li and Moon.
Japan and China will agree to set up a public-private panel to promote private-sector economic cooperation in third countries.
Now there’s a headline I never thought I’d see.
Great news that all is going forward in the right direction.
Yet they’ll never award him the Nobel Peace Prize, no matter what. It’s like I used to say here; he could cure all forms of cancer and they’d attack him because he did nothing about sickle cell anemia.
WHERE IS XI? The Chicoms don’t take the eating serious enough.
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