Vice FM has brief exchanges with FMs of China, Japan at ASEAN meeting

KUALA LUMPUR -- First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo had brief encounters with the top diplomats of China and Japan in Malaysia on Thursday, marking the first such in-person exchanges between senior diplomats of the three Asian neighbors since the launch of the Lee Jae Myung government. Park was seen approaching Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, followed by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, exchanging handshakes and brief greetings with both ministers ahead of a multilateral meeting involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the three countries. Although brief, the interaction marked the first face-to-face encounter between a senior South Korean diplomat and the two ministers since the Lee administration took office early last month. Park was attending a series of ASEAN-hosted high-level meetings this week as the country's top representative, standing in for the foreign minister whose nomination is under way pending parliamentary confirmation. Details of their conversations were not immediately known. In the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) session, Park highlighteWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times