Japan, China, and South Korea agree to promote peace, cooperation

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left), Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (centre), and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul pose for a photo during their trilateral foreign ministers' meeting in Tokyo. - Photo: AP

TOKYO: Japan, South Korea and China agreed Saturday (March 22) that peace on the Korean peninsula was a shared responsibility, Seoul's foreign minister said, in a meeting of the three countries' top diplomats in which they pledged to promote cooperation.

The talks followed a rare trilateral summit in May in Seoul where the neighbours -- riven by historical and territorial disputes -- agreed to deepen ties and restated their goal of a denuclearised Korean peninsula.