Japan Summons South Korean Envoy Over Forced Labor Lawsuits
- South Korean court rules to allow seizure of assets: Yonhap
- Japan says all such claims were settled under a 1965 treaty
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Japan’s Foreign Ministry summoned the South Korean ambassador to seek talks in an escalating standoff over forced labor claims that it has said risks undermining the legal basis for relations between the neighbors.
The ministry Wednesday summoned Ambassador Lee Su-hoon after a South Korean court this week approved the confiscation of assets in South Korea in a case involving Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.