South Korea agrees to intelligence-sharing with Japan, but animosity remains

The two countries have a history of ill-will, largely stemming from Japan’s wartime occupation of South Korea and its use of ‘comfort women’

23 November 2019 - 08:30Kim Jeong-ju , a victim of wartime forced labour by Japan's Fujikoshi, arrives at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club in Seoul, South Korea, August 14 2019. Picture: AFP/JUNG YEON-JE

Relations deteriorated when Japan restricted exports of hi-tech material to South Korea in July, while a group of former labourers requested a court order to forcibly liquidate Mitsubishi assets for compensation. Many surviving South Korean victims want a formal apology and compensation from Japan. Japan says the matter of compensation was settled under the 1965 treaty.

Tokyo wants Seoul to remove a statue near the Japanese embassy in Seoul commemorating the comfort women, and another next to the Japanese consulate in Busan. Some comfort women victims continue a weekly protest in front of the embassy.The two countries also have a territorial dispute which flared again in October when South Korea flew fighter jets over a set of remote islands marking its Armed Forces Day.

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