South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday hailed growing cooperation with Japan on issues from North Korea to semiconductors, saying it was part of a historic "new chapter" for the two countries.
Yoon will travel to Tokyo on Thursday, his first visit since taking office last year, which follows his controversial move to try and finally settle a bitter historic dispute over Japanese World War II-era forced labor. Chung Sung-Jun/ Pool via REUTERS
Yoon said he was confident his new plan to compensate victims would work, telling media including AFP in a written interview that "the Japanese government will join us in opening a new chapter of Korea-Japan relations." Around 780,000 Koreans were conscripted into forced labor by Japan during its colonial rule of the peninsula from 1905 to 1945, according to data from Seoul.Yoon is eager to lay the historic dispute to rest as he seeks closer ties with Tokyo—a key regional ally of Seoul's security partner Washington—in the face of growing threats from North Korea.
"The North Korean regime could easily resolve its food shortages if it injected the money it spends on nuclear and missile development into improving its people's livelihoods," Yoon said. "We cannot afford to waste time while leaving strained Korea-Japan relations unattended. I believe we must end the vicious cycle of mutual hostility and work together to seek our two countries' common interests."But his moves to draw closer to Japan have been criticized as "insulting" to victims of forced labor by South Korean activists, and run contrary to some court rulings.
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