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| President Moon Jae-in is speaking at the 23rd ASEAN + 3 Summit held by video in the main building of the Blue House on the 14th. 2020.11.14 / News1 © News1 Reporter Yoo Seung-gwan |
President Moon Jae-in is addressing a special greeting to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the ASEAN + 3 Summit on the 14th.
Observations are raised that President Moon has shown his willingness to advance relations, in line with the continuous flow of underwater flows to improve relations between Korea and Japan, which have recently been broken.
President Moon attended the ASEAN + 3 summit held by video starting at 3:30 pm today. The meeting was attended by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Suga, who took office in September, along with the top 10 ASEAN countries.
President Moon received a letter congratulating Suga’s inauguration and received a phone call, but this was the first time he saw him through video.
President Moon said in his remarks for the day: “Dear President, Heads of Countries, especially Japanese Prime Minister Suga, it is a pleasure to meet you.”
Although there are cases in which the president and the head of the presidency are called and honored on the stage of a multilateral summit, it is unusual to greet a specific national leader.
As a result of this, President Moon was interpreted as taking an active gesture to resolve the relationship between Korea and Japan, which had been tackled by past problems such as mandatory military service when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took over as Prime Minister. Suga assumed office inside and outside the Blue House.
Earlier, President Moon said, “Let us accelerate our efforts to solve problems and communicate with Prime Minister Suga on the occasion of the inauguration of Prime Minister Suga with a new mindset.” He responded by saying, “I will encourage dialogue efforts to resolve the issues.”
In this regard, both the government and passports are showing the movement of the underworld to improve relations between Korea and Japan.
The director of the National Intelligence Service, Park Ji-won, visited Japan on a four-day program starting on the 8th to meet with Prime Minister Suga and others to try to find a point of contact to improve relations between Korea and Japan. . The director of the National Intelligence Service, Park, met with Prime Minister Suga and proposed a new joint statement between the two leaders following the ‘Declaration of Kim Dae-jung-Obuchi’, in addition to coordinating the presence of Prime Minister Suga in the Korea-China-Japan summit that the Korean government is promoting this year. It is known that one.
At one point, the possibility of a visit from the Blue House national security officer, Seo-hoon, the head of the Blue House National Security Office, was discussed through the Japanese media, but the Blue House dismissed as “not true”.
Seven members of the opposition party, including Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Jin-pyo, who is the chairman of the Congress Federation of Korea and Japan, visited Japan on the 13th to prevent Prime Minister Suga. It was reported that Representative Kim had asked Prime Minister Suga about his intention to visit Seoul at this meeting, and Prime Minister Suga said, “Please abide by the conditions.”
Political circles are paying attention to the fact that such a move to improve relations between Korea and Japan has accelerated after Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden was elected in the US presidential election held on the 3rd.
Diplomats see a high probability that the Biden administration, which values alliances, will demand an improvement in relations between Korea and Japan, an ally, like the Obama administration. As a result, there are observations that the Blue House or the government are making more active efforts to improve relations with Japan.
There is also the possibility of Prime Minister Suga actively participating in a dialogue between South Korea and Japan, unlike former Prime Minister Abe, to consolidate his own leadership. Having recently met with President Park or Congressman Kim is also a positive sign.
However, there is also an overwhelming view that it is necessary to take a closer look at whether the progress of the Korea-Japan relationship can be accelerated.
First, it is still unclear whether Prime Minister Suga will be proactive in improving relations between Korea and Japan. Prime Minister Suga surrendered to the Korean government in an interview with Congressman Kim and others, saying, “It would be nice if the Korean side gave me the idea to create a good atmosphere” regarding the issue of forced labor, a sharp issue among Korea and Japan.
Even for the Korean government, it is difficult to find a solution to the problem of forced labor.
In fact, President Moon met with special advisers and elders in the field of diplomacy and security such as Lim Jong-seok and Jeong Eui-yong on the 11th. He has been known to struggle when addressing the issue of victims of work. forced, the biggest problem between Korea and Japan, and said that “consent and agreement of the victims is a prerequisite, but there is a difference in position between Korea and Japan.”
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