SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite repeated statements made by the governments of both South Korea and Japan declaring their intention to build a future-oriented relationship, conflicting views on previously arranged reparations for comfort women are continuing to be a point of contention. In his commemorative speech on March 1, the 99th anniversary marking [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in suggested Friday that South Korea could go ahead with humanitarian aid to North Korea in a thinly veiled rejection of a call for caution by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe asked Moon to consider the timing of the proposed aid during their phone conversation, but [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Abe administration once again reaffirmed its hardline Korea policy in a diplomatic paper released yesterday in which it made a territorial claim to the South Korean island of Dokdo, while urging the next South Korean government to honor the agreement reached with the now jailed former president Park’s [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s foreign ministry on Tuesday called on Japan to refrain from fanning security concerns on the Korean Peninsula, one day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mentioned a contingency plan in the event of a conflict in Korea. In a parliamentary committee session on Monday, Abe said his government [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the growing possibility of an American preemptive attack on North Korea over nuclear threats, the Japanese government is being accused of overplaying the danger in order to gather support for reforms to its constitution that would grant Japan the right to go to war with other countries again. [...]