South Korea's Moon urges Japan to contemplate past, calls for dialogue amid trade row
Record ID:
1427247
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: VARIOUS OF MOON REWARDING PATRIOTS WHO WERE RECOGNISED FOR SERVING THE COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE AND FAMILY OF DECEASED PATRIOTS AUDIENCE MOON STANDING IN FRONT OF PODIUM AND BOWING, AUDIENCE CLAPPING (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN, SAYING: "We hope that Japan will play a leading role together in facilitating peace and prosperity in East Asia while it contemplates a past that brought misfortune to its neighbouring countries." AUDIENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN, SAYING: "Within the international division of labour, if any country weaponises a sector where it has a comparative advantage, the peaceful free trade order will inevitably suffer damages." MOON SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN, SAYING: "If Japan chooses the path of dialogue and cooperation, we will gladly join hands."
- 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: LVA002ASBUAMF
- 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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