Japan and South Korea agreed Wednesday to keep working together to address issues related to North Korea, but remained apart over the thorny bilateral issue of wartime labor during their foreign ministerial meeting in Brazil, according to the Japanese government. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her counterpart Cho Tae…
Japan and South Korea agree to keep working together to address issues related to North Korea, but remained apart over the thorny bilateral issue of wartime labor during their foreign ministerial meeting in Brazil, according to the Japanese government.
The top diplomats of South Korea and Japan have agreed to continue bilateral cooperation to address North Korean issues during their talks on the margins of a foreign ministerial gathering of the Group of 20 countries in Brazil, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday. Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and his Japanese counterpart, Yoko Kamikawa, reached the agreement Wednesday as they met one-on-one in Rio de Janeiro.
Japan protested to South Korea’s ambassador after Japanese company funds lodged with a Seoul court were paid out as compensation over colonial-era forced labor, a step Tokyo said was a breach of a 1965 treaty. | World News
The top diplomats of South Korea and Japan agreed to strengthen cooperation on North Korean issues, while expressing lingering differences in historical matters, including compensation for forced labor victims during Japan’s colonial rule of the peninsula and South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo. South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and his Japanese counterpart, Yoko Kamikawa, met for the first t.