Japan’s Expanded Military Role Concerns Xi and Park
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun Hye expressed concern over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reinterpreting his country’s pacifist constitution to give its military a greater role.
Xi and Park also shared the view that Japan has tried to backtrack on its 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, Park’s spokesman Min Kyung Wook said by phone. The two leaders met again today after summit talks yesterday in which they opposed the development of nuclear arms on the Korean peninsula.