South Korea drops Japan as a favored trading partner, escalating tensions between two countries essential to the U.S.'s efforts to persuade North Korea to relinquish its nuclear arsenal
SEOUL—South Korea dropped Japan as a favored trading partner, further escalating tensions between the two U.S. allies.
Seoul said Monday it would remove Japan from a list of countries that qualify for accelerated imports of South Korean products, a move South Korea had signaled earlier this month when Tokyo enacted a similar measure against it.
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