The leaders of Japan and South Korea met for a summit Sunday in Seoul, extending the amity established in a meeting last month and boosting U.S. hopes of greater security cooperation with two critical allies in the region against threats from North Korea and China.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed sympathy for the suffering of Korean forced laborers during Japan’s colonial rule and offered South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol a distinct concession in what may be a return favor for Mr. Yoon’s March initiative to break the ice and thaw long-frozen relations.
Sunday’s developments will almost certainly be warmly welcomed in the White House, State Department and Pentagon. “I decided to accept the dispatch of an on-site inspection team of South Korean experts this month so that the South Korean people may understand this issue,” Mr. Kishida said. In a related positive development for Mr Yoon, one of the three surviving South Korean wartime forced laborers reportedly has agreed to accept the compensation package offered by Seoul. That could deflate related feared new lawsuits against Japanese companies.
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