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Koizumi heads to Philippines for ASEAN defense talks, but China meeting unlikely

Koizumi plans bilateral talks with U.S., Philippine and South Korean counterparts as Japan seeks deeper regional defense cooperation and a possible meeting with China remains uncertain.

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Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said his ministry had yet to confirm if the Chinese defense chief would even attend the summit.

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Defense Minister Kang Shin-chul will attend the ASEAN Expanded Defense Ministers' Meeting in the Philippines and hold his first face-to-face meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. It is expected that this multilateral meeting will serve as an opportunity to resolve the communication gap between the two defense leaders that has persisted for over a month since their inaugurations, and to discuss responses to North Korea's landmine prov…

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Hyo-jeong = Defense Minister Kang Shin-chul at the 13th ASEAN Expanded Defense Ministers' Meeting (ADMM-Plus) to be held in Cebu, Philippines on the 29th of this month...

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
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