South Korea and Japan have had strained relations of late, due to historical injustices, and with the US absent, China is the gracious host
Moon Moon Jae-in described South Korea and Japan as ‘the closest neighbours’, which ‘can never be apart’China's premier Li Keqiang, Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in ahead of the 8th trilateral leaders' meeting in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China December 24 2019.
The gathering also featured the first bilateral meeting between South Korea’s Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in 15 months. At separate lead-up meetings in Beijing on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Moon and Abe both spoke of China’s diplomatic heft in the region. Before leaving for China, Abe told reporters that links with Seoul remain “severe”.
The relationship between Japan and South Korea is overshadowed by the 35 years of brutal colonisation by the Japanese — including the use of sex slaves and forced labour — that is still bitterly resented today.Ties began a downward spiral in recent months after a series of South Korean court rulings ordering Japanese firms to compensate wartime forced labour victims. These infuriated Tokyo, who insisted the matter had been settled by a 1965 treaty between the two countries.
“It is important that we give our utmost support to the US-North Korea process towards complete denuclearisation of North Korea,” said Abe.
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