Trump says ready to help resolve SouthKorea-Japan dispute
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said Friday he remained at the ready to help South Korea and Japan solve their lingering dispute over World War II-era forced labour that has blighted their trade ties.
At the White House, Mr Trump said Mr Moon"tells me that they have a lot of friction going on now with respect to trade, primarily with respect to trade. Japan has some things that South Korea wants, and he asked me to get involved." Ms Ko said Mr Moon talked to Mr Trump in an effort to diplomatically solve the issue as Japanese media, at the time, constantly reported the possibility of economic retaliation against South Korea.
That meeting came after the US State Department promised to do"everything we can" to ease tensions between the two US allies. Senior South Korean official Kim Hyun-chong, on a visit to Washington earlier this month, said the US wanted high-level three-way talks to resolve the spat, according to the Yonhap news agency.
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