SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Saturday said his government was always ready to talk with Japan over historic disputes,
Moon’s comments were made in a speech celebrating 75 years of liberation from Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation of the peninsula.
The Asian neighbours are at loggerheads over a 2018 decision by South Korea’s Supreme Court that ordered a Japanese steelmaker to pay compensation for forced labour during World War II.
(Reporting by Sangmi Cha; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
