They reiterated the need for continued communications between the two countries. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MUNICH - Japan’s foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met his South Korean counterpart Park Jin on Saturday and reiterated the need for continued communications between the two countries to return to a “healthy relationship”.They agreed to “close communications between the two countries on each diplomatic level to resolve issues of concern”, a statement released by the Japanese foreign ministry said.
Tokyo says the issue of compensation was settled under a 1965 treaty normalising diplomatic ties and providing South Korea with economic assistance, and has warned of serious repercussions if the orders are enforced.which it imposed in 2019 on South Korea over a dispute about Japan’s wartime forced labour by Korean workers, as the neighbours hold a series of talks aimed at solving the dispute, the Sankei newspaper reported in late January.
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