South Korean delegation meets Japan FM in bid for warmer ties

TOKYO - A South Korean delegation dispatched by president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol met Japan's foreign minister in Tokyo on Monday , hoping toJapan and South Korea are both democracies, market economies and US allies, but their relationship has been strained at times over historical disputes related to Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.

But North Korean missile tests and China's growing regional military capacity, as well as visits by US President Joe Biden to Seoul and Tokyo this year, appear to have put cooperation back on the agenda.ties with South Korea were"of paramount importance""As the international community faces a historic crossroads, we believe fostering healthy Japan-South Korean relationships is essential to realising a rule-based international order," he said.

It is headed by Chung Jin-suk, a lawmaker from the conservative People Power party whose leader Yoon won a presidential election last month, promising a more hawkish policy on the nuclear-armed North.

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