China News Service, February 22. According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Im Soo-seok said on the 21st that on the issue of compensation for victims of forced labor by Japan during World War II, South Korea and Japan have held high-level talks and will follow up with corresponding measures. .

As a result, when the two countries will conduct follow-up negotiations has attracted much attention.

  Last week, the deputy foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan held talks in Washington, and then South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin took the opportunity of attending the Munich Security Conference on the 18th local time to hold talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Lin Fangzheng, calling on Japan to make a political decision on the compensation issue. Respond to the efforts of the ROK side with sincerity.

  The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea stated that the Japanese side will communicate at the working level or in follow-up consultations on how the Japanese side will respond to the meeting with the ministers and vice foreign ministers.

A specific agenda for follow-up consultations has yet to be finalized.

  The person in charge explained that the foreign ministers' meeting had just been held last week, and the Japanese side needed time to think about it. It is expected to continue to implement the results of the high-level talks in various ways, including phone calls.

From the 1st to the 2nd of next month, the G20 foreign ministers meeting will be held in New Delhi, India. At that time, the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan are expected to meet unexpectedly.

  The South Korean government has publicly proposed an official solution, that is, the South Korean group will raise funds to pay the compensation for the defendant Japanese company on behalf of the court's final judgment, and call on the Japanese side to apologize sincerely and persuade the Japanese company to participate in raising compensation. Come up with a sincere response, South Korea and Japan have not yet reached an agreement.

  According to Korean media, whether Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other leaders can proceed from the overall situation of improving South Korea-Japan relations and respond to South Korea’s proposal has attracted much attention.

  Korean media quoted observers as pointing out that after Japan sorts out its position and conducts follow-up consultations with South Korea, South Korea will eventually have to make a political decision on whether to accept the results of the consultations.

The grievances and disputes in South Korea and Japan's historical issues are intertwined, and ultimately require the leaders of the two countries to make up their minds to resolve them. Therefore, relevant channels for consultations are often established.

In 2015, when South Korea and Japan reached a comfort women agreement, Lee Byung-ki, director of the National Intelligence Service of the Park Geun-hye government, and Shotaro Yauchi, then head of the Japanese National Security Agency, established a behind-the-scenes high-level consultation mechanism to play a key role in facilitating the comfort women agreement.