For the first time in 12 years, the leaders of South Korea and Japan are meeting. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol seek to rebuild security and economic ties.

What has brought two countries with historical distrust of each other together are two other countries in the region: China and North Korea. Twelve years ago, neither Xi Jinping nor Kim Jong Un had yet come to power. So much has changed over the past decade.

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