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SOUTH Korean, Chinese and Japanese foreign ministers will meet in Seoul this weekend for their first trilateral talks in three years.
The annual talks, which began in 2007, were suspended following the April 2012 meeting due to territorial and historical disputes among the countries.
There have been no meetings since then of the countries’ leaders, who were also meeting annually in a trilateral forum.
Japan colonised the Korean peninsula and imposed a brutal occupation on China before and during World War II.
Tokyo’s ties with Seoul and Beijing have further soured in recent years over nationalistic events and remarks in Japan.
Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said that it expected Saturday’s meeting to serve as a chance to restore trilateral co-operation systems.
The agenda includes ways to strengthen ties among the countries and resume the three-way summit talks, ministry officials said.
