Japan sparks feud with South Korea over 400-year-old gold mine

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TOKYO - A dispute over the history of a 400-year-old gold mine has touched off fresh animosity between Japan and South Korea, just as the Biden administration needs their cooperation to confront new

North Korean weapons that threaten the US allies.

South Korea contends Tokyo is looking to whitewash the facility's use of forced labour from the Korean Peninsula and has expressed"strong regret" over the campaign. It has previously said it would campaign"to prevent sites where people were forced to work against their will from being inscribed as a World Heritage site without sufficient explanation of such historical facts".off the coast of Nagasaki that is already a Unesco World Heritage Site.

The top diplomats from the US, Japan and South Korea are due to meet this month, according to reports from the Yonhap and Kyodo news agencies.

 

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