SEOUL: South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday hailed growing cooperation with Japan on issues from North Korea to semiconductors, saying it was part of a historic 'new chapter' for the two countries.
Yoon will travel to Tokyo on Thursday, his first visit since taking office last year, which follows his controversial move to try and finally settle a bitter historic dispute over Japanese World War II-era forced labor.Yoon said he was confident his new plan to compensate victims would work, telling media including Agence France-Presse in a written interview that 'the Japanese government will join us in opening a new chapter of Korea-Japan relations.
He pointed to reports of people starving to death in North Korea — which has been under a strict self-imposed blockade since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020.'The North Korean regime could easily resolve its food shortages if it injected the money it spends on nuclear and missile development into improving its people's livelihoods,' Yoon said.
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