SEOUL (Reuters) -South&nbsp;Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with U.S. President Joe Biden&nbsp;and&nbsp;Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday in San Francisco, according to Yoon's office.
The&nbsp;leaders&nbsp;posed for a photograph together before leaving without making remarks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, news agency Yonhap reported. The&nbsp;brief&nbsp;meeting&nbsp;comes three months after the&nbsp;leaders&nbsp;met at Camp David in August for talks.
Yoon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kishida promised to push for deeper cooperation in a separate&nbsp;meeting&nbsp;earlier Friday, Yoon's office said.
"This year, bilateral cooperation is deepening with the reactivation of exchanges at each level, including at the summit level,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the restoration of consultation bodies between our governments," Yoon was quoted as saying in a media pool report.
Kishida said he hopes to push forward with cooperation in politics, security guarantees, the economy&nbsp;and&nbsp;culture.
The two also discussed North&nbsp;Korea's continued nuclear&nbsp;and&nbsp;missile tests&nbsp;and&nbsp;committed to working together with the United States on responding to the North,&nbsp;Japan's foreign ministry said in a statement.
The pair met on Thursday, a day before they were due to attend a roundtable on technological cooperation at Stanford University.
They are expected to announce a joint supply network for carbon-neutral fuels such as hydrogen&nbsp;and&nbsp;ammonia, the Nikkei business daily has reported.
Yoon has made it a priority to mend ties with&nbsp;Japan&nbsp;since taking office in May 2022,&nbsp;and&nbsp;to restore trilateral security cooperation with the United States as North&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;ramps up its weapons programs&nbsp;and&nbsp;openly threatens the&nbsp;South.
The moves have not always been popular at home, where many&nbsp;South&nbsp;Koreans believe&nbsp;Japan&nbsp;has not done enough to atone for its 1910-1945 occupation of the&nbsp;Korean peninsula.
Kishida also attended the summit with Biden in August, pledging alongside the other two countries to deepen military&nbsp;and&nbsp;economic cooperation&nbsp;and&nbsp;restore an alliance aimed at countering North&nbsp;Korea's threats&nbsp;and&nbsp;China's growing influence.
(Reporting by Josh Smith in Seoul; Editing by Sam Holmes, Christopher Cushing&nbsp;and&nbsp;Gerry Doyle)

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