South Korea, Japan to Meet in Madrid to Discuss Tensions: Yonhap
Toshimitsu Motegi with Kang Kyung-wha before a bilateral meeting at the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Nagoya.
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Top South Korean and Japanese diplomats will likely meet on the sidelines of a gathering of Asian and European foreign ministers later this month to discuss a resolution to a year-long dispute, Yonhap News reported.
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi are expected to table the contentious forced-labor issue, the root of recent tensions between the two, at a bilateral meeting in Madrid, the report said, without citing the source of the information. The meeting is expected to take place around the Dec. 15-16 ministerial gathering, and before an expected trilateral summit with China in December.