ADAD“President Moon and Prime Minister Abe had the opportunity to talk and that’s an encouraging sign as we watched the relationship improve,” Stilwell told reporters after a meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Kang Kyung-hwa. South Korean and U.S. officials didn’t confirm whether there were any specific discussions over the Seoul-Tokyo military agreement. Seoul and Tokyo in past months have seen their relations sink to a low unseen in decades. ADJapan has denounced South Korean court rulings calling for Japanese companies to offer reparations to aging South Korean plaintiffs for their World War II forced labor, insisting that all compensation matters were settled when the two countries normalized relations under a 1965 treaty. Monday’s meeting between Moon and Abe was their first since they held a summit on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in September 2018.

Source: Washington Post November 06, 2019 01:41 UTC