'Dynamite' diplomacy: Japan's Takaichi, South Korea's Lee Jae Myung in K-pop drum battle— watch

The Japanese and South Korean leaders engaged successful a diplomatic jam session. The PM bureau of Japan shared the video of the 2 leaders drumming to the beats of fashionable K-pop songs. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, successful the video, appeared successful a bluish way overgarment with their names imprinted connected it.

The 2 engaged successful a drumming league to tracks similar Dynamite by BTS and the Golden Globe-winning opus Golden from K-pop Demon Hunters, pursuing their gathering successful the Japanese PM's hometown, Nara.

PM Lee Jae Myung later, successful a station connected X, shared astir the interaction, jokingly confessing that helium felt "a small awkward" playing successful beforehand of a metallic drummer. Expressing optimism successful the narration betwixt the 2 nations, Myung said that the 2 leaders "shared harmony atop our idiosyncratic rhythms."

It felt a spot awkward astatine first, but with each beat, the sounds came unneurotic arsenic one," helium wrote.He besides expressed the long-held imagination helium had of playing drums and thanked Takaichi for the opportunity."Playing the drums was a long-held imagination of mine, truthful the clip was each the much precious for the Prime Minister’s thoughtful consideration. Thanks to the Prime Minister, we were capable to stock a peculiar moment, exchanging our existent feelings done music."

Ending his connection connected a philharmonic note, Myung wrote, "Just arsenic we respected each other’s differences and recovered our bushed together, I anticipation that the 2 nations of Korea and Japan tin deepen their practice and instrumentality 1 measurement person with each passing moment."Takaichi besides took Myung connected a circuit of Horyu-ji Temple, an architectural tract among immoderate of the world’s oldest surviving woody architecture that illustrates Japan's adoption of Buddhism via the Korean Peninsula.South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has been successful Japan to conscionable the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for the Nara acme held connected Tuesday. The gathering was held with an purpose to amended the sometimes-strained narration arsenic Tokyo faces a deepening enactment with China.