[정치]The ‘swing’ rate due to continued contact between Korea and Japan? … Biden government intervention is also a variable

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Following the meeting of Japanese Prime Minister Park Ji-won, Suga and a delegation from the Congress Federation of Korea and Japan to visit Japan, steps are being accelerated to resolve the frozen relationship between Korea and Japan for more than two years.

With the strengthening of the triangular alliance between Korea and Japan by the biden administration and the possibility of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Korea within the year as variables, it is noteworthy whether a dramatic breakthrough will be prepared.

Reporter Lee Kyo-jun reported.

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The head of the National Intelligence Service, Park Ji-won, met Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga for the first time as a high-ranking Korean figure.

President Moon Jae-in’s willingness to normalize relations between Korea and Japan.

[박지원 / 국정원장 (10일) : 한일 양 정상이 해결해야 된다는 필요성에 공감하고 있고, 그러하기 때문에 계속 대화를 하면 잘 되리라고 봅니다.]

Subsequently, opposition lawmakers from the Korea-Japan Congress Federation also visited Japan for the first time since Suga took office to improve relations between Korea and Japan.

Previously, the diplomatic authorities of Korea and Japan resumed face-to-face consultations at the director level in Seoul last month after eight months, followed by the First Deputy Minister of the Foreign Ministry, Choi Jong-Geon, who made the first call. phone after assuming office with Japan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Akiba Takeo to discuss the issues of both countries.

Two years after the Supreme Court ruling on mandatory conscripts, contacts between Korea and Japan are reviving due to the initiation of proceedings for the sale of Japanese corporate assets in Korea and the deadline for the Korea-China-Japan summit. approaches.

There is also concern that since the inauguration of the Biden administration, if the United States actively intervenes on the issue of the past history of Korea and Japan, it could be a burden on all of Korea and Japan.

[조양현 / 국립외교원 교수 : 바이든 정부의 중요한 대외정책의 한 축이 동맹 중시라고 여러 번 강조하고 있으니까 그 중시하는 동맹국 간에 문제가 역사를 둘러싸고 계속 어렵다고 하면 큰 이슈로 인식될 것이고, 거기에 대해 트럼프 정부 때보다 적극적으로 관여할 가능성이 있다.]

At the time, Vice President Biden is considered to have played a significant role in the Obama administration’s conclusion of an agreement for comfort women in December 2015.

Therefore, even if the Biden administration rushes to close the conflict between Korea and Japan in order to elevate the system of trilateral cooperation between Korea and Japan to the level of an alliance to contain China, the possibility of creating a new one cannot be excluded. tense phase.

YTN Kyojun Lee[[email protected]]it is.

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