All posts tagged "Abe"

  • APTOPIX Obama Nuclear Security Summit
    US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States pledged Thursday to deepen cooperation with allies South Korea and Japan on deterring the North Korean nuclear threat, working to ramp up pressure following worrying provocations. Leaders of the three countries...

    • Posted March 31, 2016
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    Park, Abe agree to work together for strong sanctions on N. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Thursday to closely cooperate for the swift adoption of a U.N. resolution for strong sanctions on North Korea over its claimed hydrogen bomb test,...

    • Posted January 7, 2016
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  • South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, right, shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida after their joint press conference at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. The foreign ministers said they had reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, a potentially dramatic breakthrough between the Northeast Asian neighbors and rivals. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    South Korea, Japan settle deal on wartime Korean sex slaves

    The deal, which included an apology from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a 1 billion yen ($8.3 million) aid fund from Tokyo for the elderly former sex slaves, could reverse decades of animosity and mistrust between...

    • Posted December 28, 2015
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    ‘Abe ordered sex slavery settlement by end of year’

    By Kim Se-jeong Korea and Japan are likely to hold a meeting of foreign ministers next week to discuss the issue of sex slavery of Korean women by Japan before and during World War II. The expectations...

    • Posted December 24, 2015
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  • Korea, Japan, comfort women, sex slavery
    Park urges Abe to make decision on wartime sex slavery

    SEOUL/BEIJING (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye pressed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday to make a decision to resolve the issue of former South Korean sex slaves for Japan’s World War II soldiers. Seoul-Tokyo relations remain...

    • Posted November 13, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose for photos before their meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. (Lee Jung-hun/Yonhap)
    Park, Abe agree to speed up talks to resolve issue of former sex slaves

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Monday to speed up negotiations to quickly resolve the issue of former South Korean sex slaves for Japan’s World War II soldiers, Cheong Wa...

    • Posted November 2, 2015
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    President Park to hold talks with Abe next week

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week, Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, in the first bilateral summit between leaders of the two neighbors in more than three years....

    • Posted October 28, 2015
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