Friday’s unprecedented trilateral summit between the leaders of the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea will cap off months of what the White House describes as “courageous diplomacy” on the part of the Japanese and South Korean heads of government, Fumio Kishida and Yoon Suk-yeol.
Both leaders have met a number of times over the last several months in an effort to ease longstanding tensions between the two US allies, including old grievances dating back a century to the Japanese Empire’s occupation of the Korean Peninsula.
