South Korea's Yoon, Japan's Ishiba agree united response needed against North Korea 

SEOUL — 

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol held his archetypal telephone telephone with Japan's caller Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba connected Wednesday and agreed a agreed effect unneurotic with the United States is needed to antagonistic North Korea's threats, his bureau said.

South Korea past week welcomed Ishiba's predetermination arsenic the caput of Japan's ruling party, saying it looked guardant to the 2 countries continuing to amended ties and moving unneurotic connected information and economical issues nether his leadership.

Yoon told Ishiba during their telephone the neighbors are important partners who stock values and interests and invited him to proceed to pass intimately and heighten cooperation, Yoon's bureau said.

"The 2 leaders agreed that South Korea and Japan, South Korea, the United States and Japan request to unite to respond to North Korea's continued provocations," it said.

Ishiba, who was confirmed arsenic premier curate connected Tuesday, pledged to question deeper ties with affable nations to antagonistic the gravest information threats his state has faced since World War Two.

Yoon has made it a diplomatic precedence to amended ties with Tokyo and physique trilateral information practice unneurotic with the United States by putting years of animosity stemming from Japan's wartime past behind.

Ishiba's predecessor Fumio Kishida and Yoon oversaw a newfound concern aft orchestrating an about-face successful ties that had sunk to their lowest level successful decades earlier Yoon came to office, prodded by U.S. President Joe Biden.