China News Service, July 19, reported that on the 19th local time, South Korea’s Blue House and People’s Communication Chief Secretary Park Soo-hyun said that President Moon Jae-in will not visit Japan during the Tokyo Olympics.
Data map: South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Photo courtesy of the Blue House
South Korean media reported that Park Soo-hyun said that based on the possibility of holding talks between the leaders of the two countries during the Tokyo Olympics, South Korea and Japan conducted constructive consultations on unresolved historical issues and the direction of future cooperation between the two countries, but failed to obtain Expected results, and comprehensively consider other circumstances to make the above decision.
Kyodo News Agency of Japan also reported that the Presidential Palace of South Korea announced on the 19th that South Korean President Moon Jae-in would abandon his visit to Japan in cooperation with the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" once reported that Moon Jae-in will hold a South Korea-Japan summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on the opening day of the Tokyo Olympics on the 23rd.
In this regard, South Korea’s Blue House said earlier on the 19th whether Moon Jae-in will attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, and there is no conclusion yet.
South Korea and Japan have dealt with the victims of Japanese military comfort women, the forced conquest of South Korean workers’ compensation case, the sewage treatment of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and the designation of disputed islands in South Korea ("Dokdo" in South Korea and "Takeshima" in Japan) as Japanese territory There are constant frictions and disagreements on this issue.
In July, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stated that Japan-South Korea relations are "very difficult" and added that Seoul must respond to these issues.