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South Korea, Japan Unveil Nara Summit Deliverables on Tech, Security and Wartime Remains

The meeting signaled Seoul’s push for pragmatic balance after Lee’s talks with Xi in Beijing.

Overview

  • Lee Jae Myung and Sanae Takaichi agreed to cooperate on recovering and identifying victims from the 1942 Chosei undersea coal mine disaster through joint DNA analysis.
  • The two governments will launch working-level consultations on artificial intelligence and intellectual property and expand economic-security coordination as Chinese export controls and rare-earth constraints pressure supply chains.
  • Officials outlined steps to strengthen cooperation against transnational crime and to boost people-to-people exchanges and business facilitation.
  • Both sides reaffirmed close coordination with the United States and restated a shared goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula with aligned approaches to North Korea.
  • The leaders committed to continue shuttle diplomacy with reciprocal visits, and Seoul emphasized it will not take sides in the Japan–China dispute even as those tensions persist.