South Korea Calls on Japan to Drop Heritage Push for Labor Sites
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South Korea called on Japan to reassure neighbors about its defense expansion and drop plans to seek world heritage status for sites where Koreans were used as forced labor last century.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se made the remarks during his meeting yesterday with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly annual meeting in New York, the Foreign Ministry in Seoul said on its website.