Korea-Japan Diplomatic Authorities to Hold Director-General Level Talks in Seoul on the 6th

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jihwan] South Korea and Japan's diplomatic authorities announced on the 4th that they will hold director-general level talks in Seoul on the 6th to discuss mutual interests between the two countries.

The director-general level talks will be attended by Kim Jeonghan, Director-General of the Asia-Pacific Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Takizaki Shigeki, Director-General of the Asia and Oceania Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This meeting comes about three months after they last met face-to-face in Tokyo, Japan, on November 15 of last year, one week before the termination of the Korea-Japan General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA).

The two directors also met during the Korea-Japan Foreign Ministers' meetings held in Nagoya, Japan, last December and in San Francisco, USA, last January, but those meetings were limited to discussing preparations for the foreign ministers' talks.

The focus of this meeting is expected to be on the extent to which both sides will present progress on the issue of compensation for victims of forced labor during the Japanese colonial period. In particular, measures to resolve the heightened conflict between the two countries following the Supreme Court's forced labor ruling are expected to be intensively discussed.

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