South Korea's newly elected President Moon Jae-in expressed his desire to make joint efforts with China to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula by resuming the six-party talks.
The settlement, which remains hugely unpopular in South Korea, included cash payments for victims and South Korea agreed to try to resolve a Japanese grievance over a statue of a girl representing victims in front of its Seoul embassy.
Abe also said to Moon that he hoped to hold a trilateral summit with China as soon as possible. "President Moon accepted the invitation", the White House said.
"We have plans to send special envoys to the four countries, but nothing has been decided on who will be sent, when or to how many countries", Moon's office said as quoted by the Yonhap news agency. The conversations were dominated by how to respond to North Korea's rapidly developing nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, which are in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Moon praised Modi for his leadership, saying India was becoming a global leader on various worldwide issues, including North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
Beijing's displeasure over THAAD has reportedly been felt by South Korean businesses, particularly Lotte, the South Korean conglomerate that signed off on a land swap deal with the government to provide a site for the THAAD launch systems in late February.
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Moreover, the new President has promised to review the rushed deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) by the erstwhile government and the USA, an event opposed by the Chinese.
Those who do mention previous episodes tend to focus on the tensions between the Roh Moo-Hyun and George W. Bush administrations, but ignore the variance in South Korean and American positions vis-à-vis North Korea over time.
"President Moon said he understands China's interest in the Thaad deployment and its concerns, and said he hopes the two countries can swiftly get on with communication to further improve each other's understanding", Mr Yoon told a briefing.
In his first speech, he said he would work towards resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula and negotiate with Washington and Beijing over Thaad. We can be pretty sure Kim will first want to see if Moon really is as Sunshine-minded as he might have seemed during his campaign.
The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, urged Seoul to suspend its psychological warfare aimed at the North and for South Korean civic groups to stop sending propaganda leaflets over the border.
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