00:00German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have agreed to
00:07boost security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
00:10Kishida said the security environment in the region is under threat because of China and
00:15North Korea.
00:17He expressed grave concern over North Korea's deepening military cooperation with Russia,
00:22with Scholz calling it a clear violation of UN sanctions.
00:27Scholz and Kishida also agreed to hold high-level intergovernmental talks, possibly next year,
00:32to discuss a wide range of global and regional issues.
00:37During talks in Berlin, the two leaders also confirmed that their countries would create
00:41an economic security framework, amid fears about what they view as China's overproduction
00:47of electric vehicles.
00:50Scholz said that despite the distance between the two countries, Japan and Germany have
00:54many things in common.
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