Biden reaches deal with Japan and South Korea to strengthen military coordination
Mike Mochizuki:
Well, I think, the major credit has to go to President Yoon.
Japan and South Korea had been locked in tensions regarding the wartime forced labor issue. Japan insisted that the forced labor issue had been resolved in the 1965 normalization process. In the end, President Yoon made the bold decision to basically make a dramatic concession to Japan, and have the South Koreans pay for the compensation for victims of forced labor.
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