View that improving Japan-South Korea relations during the term of President of South Korea Mun will be even more difficult

The South Korean presidential office has announced that it will forgo the visit to Japan that President Moon Jae-in was considering at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.

In South Korea, it is said that it has become more difficult for Japan-South Korea relations, which have been chilled due to the comfort women issue and the issue of "recruitment" during the Pacific War, to improve during the term of President Mun, who has less than 10 months left. Is out.

Three years ago, when the Pyeongchang Olympics opened, the Korean presidential office said that President Moon Jae-in visited Japan at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, keeping in mind that Prime Minister Abe visited South Korea at that time. I have been considering holding a face-to-face summit meeting with Prime Minister Kan for the first time, but on the 19th, I announced that I would not visit.

"It was still not enough to produce results at the summit, and we decided on it by comprehensively considering various circumstances," the statement said.

As a prerequisite for the president's visit to Japan, the South Korean government has emphasized holding the Japan-Korea summit meeting not as a short ritual, but as a way of carefully exchanging opinions and appealing diplomatic achievements to the domestic market. It was.

Specifically, although we expected some results by releasing treated water from TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the sea and tightening export control to South Korea, prior consultation with the Japanese side was held. It seems that it was difficult to get a real profit from the feel.

On the other hand, regarding the comfort women issue and the issue of "recruitment" during the Pacific War, we would like to confirm the importance of improving the chilled Japan-South Korea relations, rather than showing an acceptable solution for the Japanese side. Was being done.

In South Korea, the failure to hold the Japan-Korea summit meeting since December has made it even more difficult for Japan-South Korea relations to improve during President Mun's term of office, which is less than 10 months left. It has come out.