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“Especially nice to meet Japanese Prime Minister Suga.”
On the 14th, President Moon Jae-in attended the’ASEAN + 3 (Korea, China, Japan) ‘summit held by video at the Blue House on the 14th. It is unusual to specifically mention a leader of a specific country in a multilateral conference attended by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and more than 10 ASEAN leaders. As such, it is analyzed that President Moon has shown a willingness to advance relations amid the continuous flow underwater to improve relations between Korea and Japan, which has recently been broken.
● Successive visits of the ruling party to Japan suggest cooperation in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.
President Moon met Prime Minister Suga three times at five summits related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which took place over four days starting on the 12th. Although it is a burn, it is the the first time since Prime Minister Suga’s inauguration in September that President Moon and Prime Minister Suga have gone head-to-head. President Moon made two proposals on Japan at the East Asia Summit (EAS) held on the same day as the ASEAN + 3 Summit, where he greeted Prime Minister Suga. President Moon said: “First, it is multilateral cooperation in the field of quarantine and medical care,” and said: “We look forward to active support and participation so that we can protect the lives and safety of others to through solidarity and cooperation and lay the foundations for peace in Northeast Asia. ” “Second, I propose to closely cooperate with the Northeast Asia Relay Olympics, which will lead to Tokyo in 2021 and Beijing in 2022, as ‘Quarantined Safety Olympics.’ It means using the Tokyo Olympics in July next year as an impetus for the reactivation of the peace process on the Korean peninsula, as well as to improve relations between Korea and Japan, calling for the active support of the quarantine cooperation body of the Northeast Asia in which North and South Korea, China and Japan participated, as proposed by the UN General Assembly in September. At the same time, the Director of the National Intelligence Service, Park Ji-won, and members of the Korea-Japan Congress Federation recently visited Japan to meet with Prime Minister Suga, and this time President Moon sent a message to reestablish the relations directly with Japan. A Blue House official said, “The multilateral community for quarantine and health cooperation and the Tokyo quarantine Olympics are connected proposals,” and said, “a comprehensive foundation with the Korean peninsula problem and relations between Korea and Japan in mind. ”
● Japan still remains in the position of ‘solving the problem of compulsory military service first, normalizing the relationship later’
The ruling ruling party is in full swing before and after the US presidential elections to improve relations between Korea and Japan. Unlike the Donald Trump administration, which did not actively intervene in relations between Korea and Japan, the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, is not irrelevant to the observation that he will actively improve relations between Korea and Japan. Before the monetization of domestic assets of Japanese companies, which has become a matter of time, it is a trend to find solutions for forced recruitment by expressing the will to improve relations between the leaders of Korea and Japan, such as the ‘ Moon Jae-in-Suga’s statement. ‘ Professor Won-deok Lee from Kookmin University said: “With the launch of the Biden administration, the pressure to resolve the conflict between Korea and Japan inevitably increases.” Kim Jin-pyo, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea who interviewed Prime Minister Suga, held a meeting with a correspondent at a hotel in Tokyo on the 14th and said: “If possible, it would be better to solve all the problems of Korea and Japan. collectively. “Let’s do Olympic cooperation, etc.,” he said. “As a result, this cooperation will help resolve the conflict in the past.”
However, Japan still holds a firm position that Korea must first suggest a solution to conscription. A Liberal Democratic Party official close to Prime Minister Suga told Dong-A Ilbo: “It is possible that the leaders of Korea and Japan will declare a new vision only when the problem of conscription is solved.” Diplomats choose special legislation like ‘Moon Hee Sang-an’ as the most realistic option. Jin Chang-soo, former director of the Sejong Institute, said: “I don’t think it is easy to solve the conflict between Korea and Japan unless we create a special law that provides a comprehensive solution to the problem of forced labor, like ‘Moon Hee Sang- an ‘”.
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