President Moon Jae-in will make a one-day trip to Japan on May 9 to attend the 7th Korea-Japan-China Summit. His visit to Japan marks the first by an incumbent Korean President in six and a half years.

At the trilateral summit, President Moon will engage in discussions with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang focusing on how to advance substantive cooperation among the three nations. The leaders are also expected to discuss recent developments in Northeast Asia and other key regions as well as in the international situation.

On top of this, President Moon will explain the outcome of the inter-Korean summit and engage in consultations on how to further enhance three-way cooperation for the realization of denuclearization and settlement of permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula. 

The first trilateral summit to be held since the inauguration of President Moon is expected to help institutionalize the tripartite collaboration and produce tangible results that can be actually felt by the peoples in the three nations in various substantive areas, including energy, the environment and people-to-people exchanges, thereby ultimately laying the foundation for cooperation needed to promote shared prosperity in Northeast Asia.   

President Moon is scheduled to have a bilateral summit and a luncheon consultation with Prime Minister Abe after the trilateral summit. The two leaders are expected to exchange opinions on various areas of cooperation, including forward-looking development in relations between Korea and Japan and the complete denuclearization of and the settlement of permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula