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President Yoon to be invited to the G7 Summit in Japan

President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a restuarant in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday. [YONHAP]

President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a restuarant in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday. [YONHAP]

 
Japan is taking steps in inviting President Yoon Suk Yeol to the G7 summit held in May in Hiroshima.  
 
The report by the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun on Sunday came after the two-day visit by President Yoon last week, the first summit between the heads of two countries in 12 years.  
 
Yomiuri Shimbun cited several Japanese government officials that the Japanese government is currently working on the final details on the invitation as a response to the Korean government’s latest “solution to the lawsuit issue of former forced laborers.”  
 
Japan is allowed to invite non-G7 members to the meeting as the host country. 
 
The Japanese Prime Minster Fumio Kishida also plans to invite the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his four-day visit to India that kicked off on Sunday.  
 
The Yoon government has started its first step in normalizing the frayed relationship with neighboring Japan in recent years when it announced on March 6 that a public foundation will compensate the victims of forced labor during the Japanese colonial rule.
 

BY LEE HO-JEONG [lee.hojeong@joongang.co.kr]
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