- Enduring a Chill in Ties with South Korea - [2012.09.24] Read
in: 日本語 | 简体字 | 繁體字 | FRANÇAIS | ESPAÑOL | االعربية | In October
1998, on the occasion of a visit to Japan by South Korea’s
President Kim Dae-jung, he and Japan’s Prime Minister Obuchi
Keizō issued a joint statement titled “A New Japan–Republic of
Korea Partnership towards the Twenty-first Century,” which
included the following passages: The two leaders conducted an
overall review of past relations between Japan and the Republic
of Korea, reaffirmed the current friendly and cooperative
relations, and exchanged views on how the relations between the
two countries should be in the future. As a result of the
meeting, the two leaders declared their common determination to
raise to a higher dimension the close, friendly and cooperative
relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea which have
been built since the normalization of their relations in 1965 so
as to build a new Japan–Republic of Korea partnership towards
the twenty-first century. The t