South Korea's Moon urges Japan to contemplate past, calls for dialogue amid trade row

Record ID: 1427248

  • Title: South Korea's Moon urges Japan to contemplate past, calls for dialogue amid trade row
  • Date: 15th August 2019
  • Summary: CHEONAN, SOUTH KOREA (AUGUST 15, 2019) (AGENCY POOL) VARIOUS OF SCREEN SHOWING SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN WALKING INTO CEREMONY VENUE FOR LIBERATION DAY
  • 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: LVA001ASBUAMF
  • 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.
    (Production: Heejung Jung)
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