SKorea seeks to boost military alliance with US

(23 Aug 2019) South Korea says it will bolster its military alliance with the United States amid worries that its decision to terminate its intelligence-sharing deal with Japan would weaken the Seoul-Washington alliance.

During a press conference Friday, senior presidential official Kim Hyun-chong also accused Japan of having ignored South Korea's repeated calls for dialogue and other conciliatory steps to resolve bitter trade and history disputes.

Kim said Japan's "breach of diplomatic etiquette" undermined South Korea's "national pride."

South Korea previously accused Japan of weaponizing trade to punish it over a separate dispute linked to Japan's brutal colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

Japan denies any retaliation and has long claimed all wartime compensation issues were settled when the two countries normalized relations under a 1965 treaty.



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