The leaders of South Korea, Japan and China agreed Sunday to speed up negotiations on signing a trilateral free trade deal and creating a new mega trading bloc covering Asia and Oceania.
The agreement reached at the trilateral meeting among President Park Geun-hye, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang at Cheong Wa Dae.
The leaders said that the three countries will cooperate on further economic integration in the long term, including the establishment of a common market in the region.
This has been excerpted from a 1 November 2015 news item by Korea Times and is available in its entirety at: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/11/120_189982.html