South Korean Foreign Minister ”met” with Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koizumi on the 11th...is this effectively a move by the ”next prime minister”?

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will meet with Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koizumi Shinjiro on the 11th of this month. The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on the 8th, "Foreign Minister Cho will meet with the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Food Security Council.
"I plan to meet with Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koizumi, who will be visiting South Korea to attend the Japan-China-South Korea Agriculture Ministers' Meeting and the Japan-Korea-China Agriculture Ministers' Meeting," he said.
The meeting was held at the request of Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Koizumi, who is visiting South Korea, to meet with high-ranking South Korean officials.
The meeting was held at the request of the Prime Minister, and some say that "Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Koizumi has effectively begun his steps to become the next prime minister."
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koizumi will be in South Korea from the 9th to the 11th, meeting with important figures from various fields.
A South Korean Foreign Ministry official said of the background to the meeting, "Our government is promoting exchanges with various high-ranking officials in order to build a stronger and more mature Korea-Japan relationship, and this meeting is one of those efforts.
During the meeting, Cho is expected to discuss with Koizumi about exchanges between the two countries, including plans for agricultural and fisheries economic cooperation.
The two countries have been under pressure to open their agricultural and fishery markets in particular during tariff negotiations with the United States, so this issue will also be discussed.
Attention is focused on whether this will happen.