Yoon is expected to face a considerable backlash from the South Korean public after “corresponding measures” from Japan on the issue of forced labor compensation failed to materialize
Posted : 2021-01-14 17:40
Updated : 2021-01-14 17:41
President Moon Jae-in, left, and new Ambassador to Japan Kang Chang-il pose after a ceremony at Cheong Wa Dae, Thursday. Yonhap
By Do Je-hae
Amid increased bilateral tensions between Korea and Japan resulting from a recent local court ruling regarding a historical issue, diplomatic experts expressed the importance of proceeding with the 9th Korea-China-Japan summit as planned.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga lashed out at Seoul after a local court ruling last week in favor of surviving South Korean victims of wartime sex slavery who demanded compensation from Tokyo. The Japanese leader reiterated that all colonial-era reparations were completely concluded with the 1965 normalization treaty.
Moon s rush for breakthrough with Japan raises questions
Posted : 2020-12-17 17:07
Updated : 2020-12-17 18:13
President Moon Jae-in speaks by phone with new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Sept. 24 at Cheong Wa Dae. / Courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae
By Do Je-hae
President Moon Jae-in s rush to resolute serious issues with Japan before the Tokyo Olympic Games is not going as well as Cheong Wa Dae had hoped.
Moon named former four-term ruling party lawmaker Kang Chang-il as the next ambassador to Japan last month. It was the first time he had named a politician to the post, after first appointing Lee Su-hoon, an international relations professor, and then Nam Kwan-pyo, a career diplomat and one of the foremost experts on Japan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.