Japanese envoy meets senior S. Korean official amid comfort women row

Yasumasa Nagamine, Japan's ambassador to South Korea, speaks to reporters after meeting with South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung Nam in Seoul on April 10, 2017. Nagamine said the two discussed the situations in Syria and North Korea, but he did not say whether he raised the issue of the erection of a statue in Busan symbolizing Korean "comfort women" who were forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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