South Korea calls Japan to action on war-time past
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea’s foreign minister on Saturday urged Japan to settle disputes arising from its militaristic past to allow relations between the two countries to improve.
Song Min-soon’s comments came after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angered South Koreans earlier this month when he said that there was no evidence that Japan’s government or army had forced women, many of them Koreans, to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two.
“Like today’s weather, there is turbulence (in the relationship between South Korea and Japan,)” Song was quoted by officials as telling his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso.
The clouds above us and the fog ahead must be cleared, and it is a task for us, not the past generations that committed wrongs,” Song said at the start of talks in the resort island of Cheju.
Abe has since repeated a previous apology by Tokyo over the so-called “comfort women”, saying he stood by a 1993 government statement on the issue.
Aso reiterated Abe’s apology and expression of sympathy to the women who had been forced into sexual slavery, Japanese and South Korean officials said after the meeting.
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