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China, Japan and South Korea will try to mend broken fences

SOUTH Korean, Chinese and Japanese foreign ministers will meet in Seoul this weekend for their first trilateral talks in three years.


The annual talks, which began in 2007, were suspended following the April 2012 meeting due to territorial and historical disputes among the countries.


There have been no meetings since then of the countries’ leaders, who were also meeting annually in a trilateral forum.

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