Seoul: Leader of South Korea And Japan see you next week United Nations General Assembly In New York, Seoul officials said on Thursday, what would be the first summit of countries in nearly three years amid tensions over history.
Both sides have agreed on the meeting between the President of South Korea eun suk yeoli and the Japanese prime minister fumio kishida and discussing the exact time, kim Yun’s deputy national security director Tae-hyo told reporters.
Kim said that the meeting is one in a series that Yoon On Tuesday and Wednesday, the United Nations is pushing for meetings with world leaders attending the General Assembly. He said that South Korea and the US have also agreed to a meeting between Yun and the president. Joe Biden,
As to the delicate nature of bilateral ties, however, the Japanese government on Thursday rejected the South Korean announcement. In response to a question by the Associated Press on the South Korean announcement, Japan’s Prime Minister’s Office said that “there is no such fact.”
Japanese officials may be dissatisfied with South Korea’s possible unilateral announcement, the details of which were under discussion between the two countries. But it is not clear whether there will be a summit meeting between Yun and Kishida next week.
Relations between South Korea and Japan, both major US allies, are at their lowest point in decades, when South Korean courts ruled in 2018 that two Japanese companies — Nippon Steel and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries — were forced into Japan during 1910. Ex-Korean workers should be compensated for the labor. 45 Colonial rule of the Korean peninsula. The companies and the Japanese government have refused to comply with the decisions, arguing that all compensation issues were resolved under a 1965 treaty that normalized relations between the countries and included Japan to South Korea. A payment of $500 million was involved.
Disputes in history have spread to other regions, with the two countries downplaying each other’s trade status and Seoul threatening to scrap an intelligence-sharing agreement. The wrangling has compounded a US-led effort to strengthen its alliance with its regional partners amid growing Chinese influence and North Korean nuclear threats.
Seoul and Tokyo have been trying to mend their strained ties since the May inauguration, a conservative that seeks to improve ties with Japan and the trilateral Seoul-Tokyo-Washington to better deal with rising North Korean threats. Wants to strengthen security cooperation.
It is unclear whether the Eun-Kishida meeting will yield any immediate success as it is unlikely that some former Korean forced laborers and their aid groups will accept an agreement to settle their legal battles unless Japanese companies reach a court. Do not consent to decisions.
“Given that Japanese companies are rejecting the 2018 court rulings, I think it would be very unrealistic and naive to think that there are some other proposals that could win the consent of the victims,” he said. Lee Kook UnHead of a support group for some former workers involved in lawsuits with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The last talks between the leaders of South Korea and Japan took place in December 2019, when the then South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met in China.
Both sides have agreed on the meeting between the President of South Korea eun suk yeoli and the Japanese prime minister fumio kishida and discussing the exact time, kim Yun’s deputy national security director Tae-hyo told reporters.
Kim said that the meeting is one in a series that Yoon On Tuesday and Wednesday, the United Nations is pushing for meetings with world leaders attending the General Assembly. He said that South Korea and the US have also agreed to a meeting between Yun and the president. Joe Biden,
As to the delicate nature of bilateral ties, however, the Japanese government on Thursday rejected the South Korean announcement. In response to a question by the Associated Press on the South Korean announcement, Japan’s Prime Minister’s Office said that “there is no such fact.”
Japanese officials may be dissatisfied with South Korea’s possible unilateral announcement, the details of which were under discussion between the two countries. But it is not clear whether there will be a summit meeting between Yun and Kishida next week.
Relations between South Korea and Japan, both major US allies, are at their lowest point in decades, when South Korean courts ruled in 2018 that two Japanese companies — Nippon Steel and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries — were forced into Japan during 1910. Ex-Korean workers should be compensated for the labor. 45 Colonial rule of the Korean peninsula. The companies and the Japanese government have refused to comply with the decisions, arguing that all compensation issues were resolved under a 1965 treaty that normalized relations between the countries and included Japan to South Korea. A payment of $500 million was involved.
Disputes in history have spread to other regions, with the two countries downplaying each other’s trade status and Seoul threatening to scrap an intelligence-sharing agreement. The wrangling has compounded a US-led effort to strengthen its alliance with its regional partners amid growing Chinese influence and North Korean nuclear threats.
Seoul and Tokyo have been trying to mend their strained ties since the May inauguration, a conservative that seeks to improve ties with Japan and the trilateral Seoul-Tokyo-Washington to better deal with rising North Korean threats. Wants to strengthen security cooperation.
It is unclear whether the Eun-Kishida meeting will yield any immediate success as it is unlikely that some former Korean forced laborers and their aid groups will accept an agreement to settle their legal battles unless Japanese companies reach a court. Do not consent to decisions.
“Given that Japanese companies are rejecting the 2018 court rulings, I think it would be very unrealistic and naive to think that there are some other proposals that could win the consent of the victims,” he said. Lee Kook UnHead of a support group for some former workers involved in lawsuits with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The last talks between the leaders of South Korea and Japan took place in December 2019, when the then South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met in China.