South Korea's Moon urges Japan to contemplate past, calls for dialogue amid trade row
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1427243
South Korea's Moon urges Japan to contemplate past, calls for dialogue amid trade row
- Title: South Korea's Moon urges Japan to contemplate past, calls for dialogue amid trade row
- Date: 15th August 2019
- Summary: PATRIOT AND FAMILY OF LATE PATRIOTS ON STAGE INITIATING THREE CHEERS AUDIENCE CHANTING THREE CHEERS
- Embargoed: 29th August 2019 05:36
- Keywords: South Korea anniversary Liberation Day president Moon Jae-in Japan North Korea
- Location: CHEONAN, SOUTH KOREA
- City: CHEONAN, SOUTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA006ASBUAMF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday (August 15) that Japan should look back upon its imperialist past but Seoul will "gladly join hands" if Tokyo chooses dialogue, in a carefully choreographed message amid an escalating history and trade row.
In his Liberation Day address marking Korea's independence from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule, Moon refrained from deriding Japan but laid out ambitious goals for inter-Korean relations, including an unprecedented call for unification by 2045.
Moon warned the global free trade order may suffer if a country "weaponises" a sector where it has an upper edge, referring to curbs Japan has imposed on exports of some high-tech materials to South Korea. Seoul calls the move as retaliation over a feud about wartime forced labour, while Tokyo cited unspecified security reasons.
The dispute, triggered after a South Korean court ordered Japanese firms last year to compensate some of their former labourers, has brought their ties to their lowest ebb in more than half a century.
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