Yoon, Kishida vow better Seoul-Tokyo ties following summit

Yoon during a meeting with his chief sectaries on Monday instructed them to establish follow-up measures to carry out bilateral security, economic and technology cooperation and facilitate culture and youth exchanges between the countries, which were discussed in his meeting with Kishida. Yoon’s office didn’t elaborate.

Kishida’s visit to Seoul reciprocated a mid-March trip to Tokyo by Yoon. It’s the first exchange of visits between the leaders of the countries in 12 years. Relations thawed after Yoon’s conservative government in March announced a domestically contentious plan to use local corporate funds to compensate the forced labor victims without demanding Japanese contributions. Yoon later that month traveled to Tokyo to meet with Kishida, and the two agreed to resume leadership-level visits and other talks. Their governments have since taken steps to withdraw their economic retaliatory steps.

He reaffirmed his government upholds the positions of previous Japanese administrations on the colonization issue, including the landmark 1998 joint declaration by then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, in which Obuchi said: “I feel acute remorse and offer an apology from my heart.”

Bong Young-shik, an expert at Seoul’s Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies, said it was notable how Yoon’s government carefully tempered public expectations before the summit, which made it easier for both governments to present the outcome as substantial.

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