https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AB11RQnM3vY/taro-kono RSS for Node Sat, 09 May 2026 05:26:15 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-09-03/japan-south-korea-trade-spat-boils-down-to-trust https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-09-03/japan-south-korea-trade-spat-boils-down-to-trust Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:00:11 GMT Taro Kono, Japan's foreign minister, left, and Kang Kyung-wha, South Korea's foreign minister, talk prior to the summit meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in in Tokyo on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. As Abe welcomed top leaders from both China and South Korea to Tokyo for the first time in seven years, he was forced to tackle an awkward agenda item: North Korea.