The leaders of South Korea, Japan and China have pledged to cooperate in pushing for the denuclearization of North Korea and creating permanent peace in Northeast Asia.
President Moon Jae-in, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Premier Li Keqiang agreed on the joint efforts in a special statement they adopted following their trilateral summit in Tokyo, Wednesday.
The meeting came nearly two-and-a-half years after the previous one in November 2015. It also took place while talks have been underway among relevant nations over the North's denuclearization and the establishment of a peace regime.
Moon, Abe and Li welcomed the two Koreas confirming the goal of "complete denuclearization" of the peninsula in the Panmunjeom Declaration announced after Moon's April 27 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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