(10 Jul 2025)
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Seoul, South Korea – 10 July 2025
1. Various of South Korean Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kim Myung-soo (right), welcoming Japanese counterpart Yoshida Yoshihide (left) with honor guard ceremony
2. Myung-soo and Yoshihide saluting troops
3. Close pan of Myung-soo and Yoshihide saluting troops
4. Mid of Myung-soo and Yoshihide saluting troops
5. Tilt up of Yoshihide
6. Wide of troops in formation
7. Myung-soo and Yoshihide getting in car to inspect troops
8. Various of Myung-soo and Yoshihide saluting troops from car
9. Pan of troops
10. Wide of troops
11. Myung-soo and Yoshihide shaking hands
12. Various of Myung-soo and Yoshihide entering building
STORYLINE:
Chairman of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff Kim Myung-soo and his Japanese counterpart Yoshida Yoshihide met in Seoul on Thursday morning, a day before a scheduled trilateral meeting with the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine.
Kim will also meet with Caine on Thursday afternoon to discuss the two countries’ bilateral alliance.
According to the South Korean defense ministry, Friday’s trilateral meeting will focus on security cooperation between the three countries and North Korean military threats.
Last month, Japan and South Korea marked the 60th anniversary of the normalization of their diplomatic relations.
The two Asian powers, rivals and neighbors, have often had little to celebrate, much of their rancor linked to Japan’s brutal colonial rule of Korea in the early 20th century.
Things have gotten better in recent years but both nations — each a strong ally of the United States — now face political uncertainty and a growing unease about the future of their ties.
South Korea’s new liberal president, Lee Jae Myung, is determined to break sharply from the policies of his disgraced predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol, who faces a trial on charges of leading an insurrection over his imposition of martial law in December.
Relations with Japan, however, are one area where Lee, who describes himself as a pragmatist in foreign policy, may find himself cautiously building on Yoon’s approach.
Before his removal from office in April, the conservative former president tried to repair relations with Japan.
Yoon wanted to also tighten the countries’ three-way security cooperation with Washington to counter North Korean nuclear threats.
AP video by Yong Jun Chang
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