Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday he would be willing to meet face-to-face with South Korean President Moon Jae-in during his visit to China for a trilateral summit in late December.
The two countries’ relations have been badly frayed since South Korea’s Supreme Court in October ordered Japanese companies to compensate forced labour victims during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945.
South Korea said in August that it would terminate the military intelligence pact with Japan. (DPA)