The Japanese leaders will start working with their counterparts in Beijing and Seoul to set a schedule for the proposed summit, NHK news agency reported.

South Korea expressed regret regarding North Korea’s slander of President Park Geun-hye on Friday, …over a warning issued to the North during her summit with the Chinese leader.

Park’s sixth summit meeting with Xi highlighted the growing ties between the neighbours, as China has grown increasingly frustrated with North Korea. “Today’s summit is more significant as it marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the war as well as the South’s independence from Japan and the division of the Korean peninsula”, Park said in a meeting at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. But there is also doubt that this will lead to a fundamental change in the areas of inter-Korean relations or the North Korean nuclear issue. It allows South Korea to provide more support for United States military costs incurred in protecting against the unpredictable neighbor to the north.

The reclusive state sent Choe Ryong-hae, a secretary of its ruling Workers’ Party, to attend China’s World War II victory ceremony Thursday. “19 Joint Statement and the related resolutions by the UN Security Council should be faithfully implemented and in relation to this that they oppose any action whatsoever that increases tensions”, the press release said.

Min Kyung-wook, a Park spokesman, told reporters last week that South Korea considered its relationship with China, Seoul’s largest trading partner, in its decision to attend the parade. President Park should squarely face this reality and proactively adopt a well-balanced form of summit diplomacy.

Premier Li Keqiang said on Sept 2 that China and South Korea should link innovation with industries to further promote bilateral cooperation in emerging industries.

A total of 24 North Korean business entities took part in an annual trade fair hosted by China, showing off a range of food and medicine, including a blood thinner. The most fundamental reason that China’s relations with North Korea are chilly at the moment is because North Korea has chosen the course of maintaining its nuclear arsenal despite China’s opposition.

Abe and Xi have met twice since last year – both times on the sidelines of global conferences – and Tokyo-Beijing ties have rebounded from the low point they had reached, but Abe has yet to hold one-on-one talks with Park in the more than two years since they took office.

South Korea maintains a Reunification Ministry which works to unite Korea, but the Kim regime has become one of the world’s longest-lasting dictatorships.

North Korea insisted Tuesday that its recent expression of “regret” over a mine explosion that maimed two South Korean soldiers was not an apology, as Seoul claims it was – throwing doubt on tentative moves toward detente between the rivals.