South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol finally met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, marking the first meeting between the countries’ leaders in nearly three years.

For days it was far from clear from whether the talks would even take place, as the two sides sent contradictory messages about what they had agreed to. And the meeting itself was more like a pull-aside than the summit was promised, not unlike the mismatch between the hype and delivery for Yoon’s talks with Biden in New York.

Moreover, there was a clear mismatch in