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The Real Issue Between Japan and Korea Is Trust
Japan’s foreign minister says the question is whether promises between two nations will be kept.
Minister Kono with his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-Wha.
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Relations between Japan and South Korea are currently strained due to a dispute over former civilian workers from the Korean Peninsula during World War II. The heart of the problem is whether the promises made between our two sovereign states when they decided to normalize their relations in 1965 will be kept or not.