Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked South Korea's president on Tuesday...
CHENGDU, China/SEOUL - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked South Korea’s president on Tuesday to take steps to resolve a bitter dispute at their first bilateral talks in 15 months, a sign that while the mood is improving, knotty problems between the U.S. allies remain.
Relations have been strained since South Korea’s Supreme Court last year ordered Japanese firms to compensate some South Koreans forced to work for them during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. Japan says the issue was settled under a 1965 treaty and that the court ruling violated international law. After the Korean court ruling, Japan imposed restrictions on the export to South Korea of high-tech materials used in the manufacture of chips, compounding their dispute which threatened to undermine security cooperation between them.
The two leaders had “candid” discussions recognizing the importance of dialogue, though there were still “substantive differences,” said Japan’s Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Naoki Okada. He said the mood was tense at times but not confrontational.“Japan and South Korea are historically and culturally the closest neighbors,” Moon said. “We’re not in a relationship that can set the two apart even when there’s some discomfort for a while.
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