South Korea's Yoon to visit Japan next week

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 10, 2023 12:29 am

SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit Japan next week, his office said on Thursday, as the two East Asian neighbors try to ease their diplomatic strains over Tokyo's wartime atrocities during its 35-year colonial rule.

The visit comes days after Seoul announced plans to compensate Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor without Tokyo's direct involvement, which drew strong protests from victims' groups.

MARCH MEETING South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol (left) shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-East Asia Summit in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on Nov. 13, 2022. AP FILE PHOTO

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