FMs of South Korea, Japan to meet in Bangkok on Thursday
Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono, left, during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the 2019 Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Feb. 16, 2019. TASS-Yonhap
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha speaks during a National Assembly Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee session, Tuesday. Yonhap
The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan will hold one-on-one talks in Bangkok on the sidelines of a regional security forum, amid a deepening trade row over Tokyo's export restrictions, Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
The meeting, set for Thursday on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum, will mark the first time that Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Japanese counterpart, Taro Kono, will have met since Japan slapped export restrictions against South Korea in a row over wartime forced labor. (Yonhap)