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Japan, S. Korea foreign ministers make no progress on diplomatic row
BANGKOK (Kyodo) – Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung Wha on Thursday came no closer to resolving a bitter diplomatic row between their countries over wartime history and trade policy.
The two held tense talks on the sidelines of annual ASEAN-related meetings in Bangkok as the United States has expressed concern over the growing enmity between its two biggest allies in Asia.
Kang told reporters she urged Tokyo to reconsider its tightening of export restrictions on South Korea, which Seoul has strongly criticized as going against rules established by the World Trade Organization.
Starting July 4, Japan has required individual licenses to export to South Korea three materials used to manufacture semiconductors and display panels for smartphones and TVs. South Korea had previously been exempt from the process, which can take about 90 days.
Japan also plans to remove South Korea from a "white list" of nations that have preferential status allowing them to buy products that can be diverted to military use.
The delisting, which it says is justified for national security reasons, may be approved by the Cabinet as early as Friday.
The export restrictions have come as bilateral ties were frayed by South Korean court decisions ordering compensation for victims of forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
Japan says the court rulings last year violate international law because the issue of compensation was settled by a 1965 agreement under which it provided South Korea with $500 million in financial aid.
In the roughly one-hour meeting with Kang, Kono urged South Korea to take corrective action and prevent the court rulings from hurting Japanese companies, a Japanese official said.
There were no smiles at the outset of the meeting and the two silently shook hands for the cameras before reporters were escorted out of the room. It was their first face-to-face meeting since they spoke briefly in late June on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka.
Despite the frayed relations between the neighboring countries, which arguably have sunk to the lowest point since ties were normalized in 1965, the two ministers agreed to work closely together on efforts to denuclearize North Korea, the Japanese official said.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who will meet the two for a three-way meeting on Friday, is expected to play the role of mediator, having told reporters earlier in the week that he will "encourage" Japan and South Korea to "find a path forward."…
Washington is particularly concerned about a deadline later this month for the countries to renew a bilateral intelligence-sharing agreement that helps them counter missile threats from the North.
The General Security of Military Information Agreement is automatically renewed every year unless either side voices its intent to rescind the accord.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday Tokyo wants to maintain the agreement as it is "important (for the two countries) to cooperate with each other on issues that should be dealt with in a cooperative manner."
Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations are holding a series of meetings in the Thai capital where they will speak with counterparts from "dialogue partners" such as Japan and the United States.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190801/p2g/00m/0in/079000c
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