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April 10, 2015 – “South Korea, Japan to hold high-level security talks in 5 years” (Economic Times)

  • April 11, 2015
  • Japan

“South Korea and Japan will next week hold their first high-level security talks in more than five years, Seoul said today, despite simmering tensions over territorial and other historical disputes.”

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April 7, 2015 – Opinion: “Effective control over Dokdo islets in response to Japan’s action” (Dong-A Ilbo)

  • April 10, 2015
  • History Textbooks

“Japan is still distorting historical facts around the territory this year, the 50th anniversary of the normalized ties between Korea and Japan. If Japan really wanted to improve the bilateral relationship, it shouldn`t have done this. Against this backdrop, the…

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April 2, 2015 – “70% of South Koreans want Abe-Park meeting: poll” (Japan Times)

  • April 10, 2015
  • Dialogue/Historical Dialogue

“Seventy percent of South Koreans want President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to hold a one-on-one meeting, a local opinion poll showed Thursday… Among those calling for improved ties, 41 percent cited the need to resolve historical issues, followed…

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March 26, 2015 – “U.S. has ‘solid’ understanding of Seoul-Tokyo shared history: Korean envoy” (Yonhap News)

  • April 3, 2015
  • Comfort Women

“The U.S. government, Congress and academics have a very “solid” consensus that Japan should stop its attempts to gloss over its wartime wrongdoings, namely the issue of sex slavery, the South Korean ambassador to Washington said Thursday.”

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March 26, 2015 – “Five years on, tensions mount over South Korea’s sunken warship” (Malay Mail)

  • April 3, 2015
  • Korea

“Five years on from the explosion that killed 46 sailors — almost half the crew — and led to increased border defence by both sides, the sinking is reigniting tensions between South Korea and its reclusive, nuclear-armed neighbor. North Korea…

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March 24, 2015 – “From Cho Junglae, a Film on Japanese Wartime Brothels” (NYTimes)

  • March 26, 2015
  • Art & Culture

“Now, after more than a decade in limbo, the film, “Spirits’ Homecoming,” will continue filming next month. Mr. Cho, who has made two feature films and about 200 commercials, documentaries, music videos and short films, plans to release it by…

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March 21, 2015 – “Seoul, Beijing FMs don’t discuss THAAD: official” (Yonhap)

  • March 25, 2015
  • China

“The foreign ministers of South Korea and China held bilateral meetings in Seoul on Saturday, but Beijing did not bring up the controversial issue of Washington’s possible deployment of an advanced U.S. missile-defense system on Korean soil, a Seoul official…

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March 20, 2015 – “Seoul house becomes museum highlighting the plight of second world war ‘comfort women'” (Dezeen)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Art & Culture

“Corralled in an empty room, visitors observe a moment of silence before being guided through four areas with the themes memory, remembrance, healing and recording.”

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March 17, 2015 – “Lavrov confirms N. Korean leadership attending May 9 celebrations in Moscow” (RT)

  • March 23, 2015
  • Korea

“The North Korean leadership will come to Moscow in May for the celebration of victory in World War II, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced. If Kim Jong-un pays a visit in person, this would be his first foreign…

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