The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan held talks in Tokyo on Sunday to forge much-needed momentum to mend bilateral relations that have been strained amid escalating historical and territorial feuds.
Their meeting was arranged as the two countries are to mark the 50th anniversary on Monday of the normalization of bilateral diplomatic ties. It was the first visit by Seoul’s top diplomat since the Park Geun-hye administration was inaugurated in February 2013.
During their talks, Seoul’s Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida exchanged views on a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues including North Korea’s escalating nuclear and missile threats, Seoul officials said.
High on the agenda was a set of pending history issues including Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women, euphemistically called “comfort women, and Japan’s bid to gain UNESCO World Heritage status for 23 sites from the Meiji-era industrialization.
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