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Tag: Japan-Korea relations

Posted inNortheast Asia

Baby steps toward a Japan-Korea rapprochement

by Andrew Salmon June 30, 2022July 2, 2022

SEOUL – Could Washington’s long-held dream of a US-led Northeast Asian alliance finally become reality? That might be a stretch, given the long, contentious history of emotive squabbling between Seoul and Tokyo. Yet on Wednesday (June 29), Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol sat down under the gaze of US […]

Posted inOpinion

Toward stronger US security ties with Seoul, Tokyo

by Stephan Haggard and Henry Sokolski April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
Posted inJapan, Northeast Asia, South Korea, United States, World

US verbal broadside at Seoul over axing of pact

by Andrew Salmon August 23, 2019February 18, 2020
US President Donald Trump with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 26, 2018, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Photo: AFP/ Nicholas Kamm
Posted inAT Finance, China, European Union, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Singapore, World

The balance of China, Japan, and Trump’s America

by Joseph S Nye October 7, 2018
South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-Wha finishes up a briefing on the 2015 South Korea-Japan agreement over South Korea's "comfort women" issue at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, on January 9, 2018. Photo: Reuters: Jung Yeon-Je
Posted inAT Finance, China, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Seoul opts not to overturn 2015 comfort women deal with Tokyo

by Andrew Salmon January 9, 2018February 18, 2020
A statue symbolizing former South Korean 'comfort women' is seen during an anti-Japan rally  in Seoul, on March 1, 2017.  Photo: Reuters / Kim Hong-Ji
Posted inAT Finance, China, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, Vietnam, World

Comfort women issue undermines security relationships

by Grant Newsham January 9, 2018

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