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| ▲ This combined photo taken Nov. 13, 2022, shows South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (L), U.S. President Joe Biden (C) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida posing for a photo during their summit at a hotel in Phnom Penh. (Yonhap) |
Yoon-G7 summit
Yoon to meet with Biden, Kishida on margins of G-7 summit
SEOUL, May 14 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol will attend a Group of Seven (G-7) summit in Hiroshima of Japan later this week and hold a trilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on its sidelines, his office said Sunday.
Yoon will attend the three-day G-7 summit from Friday as the leader of an invited country, South Korea is not a member of the G-7.
During the trilateral summit, the three leaders will discuss cooperation over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, a presidential official said during a press briefing.
Yoon will also address an expanded session at the G-7 summit, which will involve the G-7 members and eight guest nations, to speak on food and energy issues.
Separately, Yoon and Kishida will pay a joint visit to a memorial dedicated to Korean victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima.
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