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U.S. is actively engaged to help resolve S. Korea-Japan row: official
U.S. is actively engaged to help resolve S. Korea-Japan row: official
All Headlines 06:08 September 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Yonhap) -- The United States is actively engaged in efforts to resolve the current trade and historical row between South Korea and Japan, and will continue to encourage both sides to find "positive solutions," a top U.S. official said Wednesday.
David Stilwell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, made the remark at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, saying that he has spent a "considerable" amount of time on the issue in his two and a half months in office.
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"There are arbitration mechanisms involved in their 1965 agreement and others that we encourage them both to use," Stilwell added later at a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, referring to a Seoul-Tokyo agreement on normalizing ties.
David Stilwell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, made the remark at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, saying that he has spent a "considerable" amount of time on the issue in his two and a half months in office.
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"There are arbitration mechanisms involved in their 1965 agreement and others that we encourage them both to use," Stilwell added later at a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, referring to a Seoul-Tokyo agreement on normalizing ties.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190919000351325
By even mentioning the 1965 agreement Stilwell reveals his pro-Japan bias. References to the agreement are downright offensive at this point. Some observers are declaring the 1965 system over. The agreement was imposed on Korea by the US, Japan, and a pro-Japanese South Korean dictatorship. I wonder if Ambassador Harris will make the same error.
