Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga only exchanged greetings with South Korean President Moon Jae-in before the start of one of the formal meetings at the G-7 summit. - AP
CARBIS BAY, ENGLAND (Bloomberg): It was supposed to be another sign of Joe Biden bringing together US allies left adrift under four years of Donald Trump: The leaders of Japan and South Korea sitting down for a meeting at the Group of Seven summit.
Yet Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and South Korean President Moon Jae-in failed to hold the first substantive direct talks between the leaders of the oft-sparring neighbors since December 2019, only exchanging greetings before the start of one of the formal meetings. Suga later said there couldn’t be progress unless Seoul changed its ways on wartime labor issues.
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