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Thu, September 19, 2019 | 06:58

Bolton to visit Tokyo, Seoul next week to mediate trade row

With U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton expected in South Korea next week after stopping in Japan, experts say the visit could indicate that the U.S. believes the trade feud between Seoul and Tokyo is serious.

Jung Da-min | 2019-07-19 16:58

Trump says he is willing to help resolve Korea-Japan dispute

Korea refuses Japan's call to form arbitration panel

Japan is likely to continue to pressure Seoul over a dispute on wartime forced labor, considering bringing it to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) following Seoul's apparent rejection of Japan's Thursday deadline calling for forming an arbitration panel including a third country.

Park Ji-won | 2019-07-18 17:43

Israeli president invites Korean Christians to Jerusalem

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin thanked South Korean Christians for “praying for the peace of Jerusalem” and invited them all to the holy city during his visit to Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, Wednesday evening. In an unprecedented move, the Jewish leader visited the Christian church, with the world's largest congregation of more than half a million members, to bring “bl...

Jung Min-ho | 2019-07-18 15:21

Washington unwilling to actively mediate Seoul-Tokyo trade friction

The United States is unable to engage in the deepening trade feud between Korea and Japan, as Washington cannot pick a side with either of its major Asian allies, according to the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia.

Lee Min-hyung | 2019-07-17 17:10

US diplomat meets Seoul officials on Korea-Japan row

David Stilwell, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia policy, held a series of talks with top Seoul officials on Wednesday amid a rancorous export row between Seoul and Tokyo, and renewed friction with Pyongyang over the allies' planned military exercise.

2019-07-17 14:52

Trade war approaching critical point

Parties united in criticizing Japan's economic revenge

The leader of the main opposition party has joined the governing party in condemning Japan for its “unacceptable economic revenge,” demanding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stop it. Hwang Kyo-ahn, chairman of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) - a party that generally views Japan more favorably than the ruling Democratic Party of Korea - criticized the Japanese governme...

Jung Min-ho | 2019-07-16 15:43

Trade war approaching critical point

S. Korea deports two Japanese military attaches over illegal collection of classified documents: report

South Korea deported two Japanese military attaches last month for their alleged illegal collection of confidential documents about North Korea.

Park Si-soo | 2019-07-16 13:50

Mitsubishi rejects third dialogue request by Korean forced labor victims

Activists hold a rally to urge Japan's Mitsubishi to respect the Supreme Court's compensation order near the company's office in central Seoul, July 9. YonhapJapan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has rejected, for a third time, a request from Korean victims of wartime forced labor to respect a compensation order from the South Korean Supreme Court, a civic activist group s...

2019-07-16 13:15

Korean victims of forced labor file for sale of seized Mitsubishi assets

Japan faces suspicions over illegal shipments to NK

Japan is facing growing suspicion that it shipped prohibited items to North Korea, after accusing South Korea of violating U.N. Security Council (UNSC) sanctions by trading with Pyongyang.

Park Ji-won | 2019-07-14 21:35

Korea faces growing trade uncertainties on Japan's further export curbs

Korea is facing growing uncertainties over trade with Japan after Tokyo announced it would remove Seoul from its list of “white countries” next month, according to industry analysts, Sunday. The “white list” comprises 27 countries, including the U.S. and Germany, which are given customs shipping-clearance priority for imports from Japan.

Nam Hyun-woo | 2019-07-14 17:16

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