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Japan-S. Korea talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (L) greets his South Korean counterpart Cho Hyun at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 29, 2025, before their talks.

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S. Korean government think tank chief Park

Photo taken in September 2023 shows Park Cheol Hee, chancellor of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, a South Korean foreign ministry think tank.

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S. Koreans oppose IAEA report on Fukushima nuke wastewater discharge plan

STORY: S. Koreans oppose IAEA report on Fukushima nuke wastewater discharge plan DATELINE: July 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:31 LOCATION: Seoul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the demonstration 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Korean): YONG HYE-IN, Lawmaker of the minor progressive Basic Income Party 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Korean): PARK GWANG-HOON, Resident in Seoul 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Korean): KIM CHOONY, Secretary general of the Korea Federation for Environmental Movements (KFEM) 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Korean): LEE KI-SAM, Fisherman from South Jeolla province STORYLINE: A group of South Korean citizens gathered in central Seoul on Saturday to voice opposition against the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) final report on Japan's planned discharge of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific. The protesters include civic activists, politicians, and fishermen. They demonstrated near the South Korean foreign ministry building, where the visiting IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi was scheduled to meet with the South Korean foreign m

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S. Korean students in Nagasaki

South Korean college students visit the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in the southwestern city of Nagasaki on June 28, 2023, under a Japanese Foreign Ministry program to promote international understanding of Japan.

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Japan-S. Korea security talks

Senior foreign and defense officials of Japan and South Korea hold talks at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on April 17, 2023.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea envoys

(From L) Takehiro Funakoshi, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Kim Gunn, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, and Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea, pose for photos in Seoul on April 7, 2023.

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S. Korea's unification minister in Japan

Combined photo shows Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (R) and South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Young Se during their talks at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on March 23, 2023. (Pool photo)

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S. Korea's unification minister in Japan

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (far R) and South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Young Se (far L) hold talks at the foreign ministry in Tokyo on March 23, 2023. (Pool photo)

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S. Korea's unification minister in Japan

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Young Se (L) pose for a photo at the foreign ministry in Tokyo on March 23, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Protest against gov't solution to wartime labor row with Japan

A civic group holds a rally in front of the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on March 6, 2023, to protest the South Korean government's solution to a wartime labor compensation dispute with Japan.

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S. Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin

South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin announces the government's solution to a wartime labor compensation dispute with Japan, at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on March 6, 2023. (Pool photo)

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S. Korea summons Japanese envoy to protest Kono statement probe

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koro Bessho (L) is summoned to the South Korean foreign ministry in Seoul on June 23, 2014, by South Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yong (R) to protest Japan's recent unveiling of the outcome of an investigation into how Japan composed a 1993 apology to women forced into wartime Japanese military brothels.

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S. Korea summons Japanese envoy to protest Kono statement probe

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koro Bessho leaves the South Korean foreign ministry in Seoul on June 23, 2014, after being summoned by South Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yong to protest Japan's recent unveiling of the outcome of an investigation into how Japan composed a 1993 apology to women forced into wartime Japanese military brothels.

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Japan, S. Korea hold 1st security talks in 5 years

SEOUL, April 17 Kyodo - Japanese (R) and South Korean officials meet for high-level security talks for the first time in five years on April 14, 2015, at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul.

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Japanese, S. Korean vice foreign ministers meet for talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (L) and Cho Tae Yong, South Korea's first vice foreign minister, meet at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 29, 2014, at a time when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun Hye have still not held a one-on-one summit since taking office in 2012 and 2013, respectively, due to strained bilateral ties.

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U.S. senior diplomat Kim meets with reporters in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Sung Kim (R), U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2014, after meeting with Junichi Ihara, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau. Kim visited Tokyo after meeting with his South Korean counterpart in Seoul, South Korea.

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Japan, U.S. senior diplomats meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Ihara (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shakes hands with Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, on Dec. 8, 2014, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo. Kim visited Tokyo after meeting with his South Korean counterpart in Seoul, South Korea. (Pool photo)

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U.S. urges N. Korea to show commitment to denuclearization

SEOUL, South Korea - Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, meets with reporters at South Korea's Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 5, 2014, after holding talks with his South Korean counterpart Hwang Joon Kook, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs. Kim said, "North Korea needs to demonstrate very serious commitment to denuclearization before we can resume any negotiation."

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Japan takes up indictment of Sankei reporter in talks with S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara, head of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Nov. 27, 2014, after talks with Lee Sang Deok, head of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of South Korea's Foreign Ministry. Ihara said the Japanese side took up the indictment of a Japanese reporter accused of slandering the South Korean president in the talks, calling the action "extremely regrettable."

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Japan takes up indictment of Sankei reporter in talks with S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara (R), head of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Nov. 27, 2014, after talks with Lee Sang Deok, head of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of South Korea's Foreign Ministry. Ihara said the Japanese side took up the indictment of a Japanese reporter accused of slandering the South Korean president in the talks, calling the action "extremely regrettable."

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Japan's security official, S. Korean foreign minister

SEOUL, South Korea - Shotaro Yachi (L), national security adviser to the Japanese Cabinet, shakes hands with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se ahead of their talks at the ministry in Seoul on Oct. 21, 2014.

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Japan's security official, S. Korean foreign minister

SEOUL, South Korea - Shotaro Yachi (L), national security adviser to the Japanese Cabinet, holds a meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se at the ministry in Seoul on Oct. 21, 2014.

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Japan protests S. Korea's indictment of Japanese journalist

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Kim Won Jin, minister at the South Korean Embassy in Japan, leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2014, after Junichi Ihara, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, lodged a protest over South Korea's indictment of the former Seoul bureau chief of a Japanese newspaper. Seoul prosecutors the previous day indicted Tatsuya Kato, 48, of the Sankei Shimbun, for allegedly defaming President Park Geun Hye in an article about her whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry accident in April.

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Japanese, S. Korean vice foreign ministers meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (R) and his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae Yong shake hands before their "strategic dialogue" on bilateral issues and regional affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2014.

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Japanese, S. Korean deputy foreign ministers

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama (far R) holds talks with Lee Kyung Soo (far L), South Korea's deputy foreign minister for political affairs, at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Sept. 12, 2014.

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Japanese, S. Korean deputy foreign ministers

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama (L) shakes hands with Lee Kyung Soo, South Korea's deputy foreign minister for political affairs, ahead of their talks at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Sept. 12, 2014.

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Cohen discusses issues on DPRK with S. Korean officials

SEOUL, South Korea - David Cohen, U.S. Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, responds to reporters' questions at South Korea's Foreign Ministry on Aug. 21, 2014, after holding talks with South Korean officials on sanctions imposed on North Korea for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

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Japan-S. Korea talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara, head of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, is surrounded by reporters as he leaves South Korea's Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 23, 2014, after talks with Lee Sang Deok, head of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of the South Korean Foreign Ministry.

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Japan-S. Korea talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara, head of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, is surrounded by reporters as he leaves South Korea's Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 23, 2014, after talks with Lee Sang Deok, head of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of the South Korean Foreign Ministry.

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Top diplomats from Japan, S. Korea hold meeting

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, enters the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 23, 2014, for a new round of talks with his South Korean counterpart Lee Sang Deok.

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S. Korea, Japan to hold talks on wartime sexual slavery

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, arrives at Seoul's Gimpo airport on July 23, 2014, for talks with Lee Sang Deok, director general of the Northeast Asian affairs bureau of South Korea's Foreign Ministry, on bilateral issues such as Korean women forced to serve at brothels for the wartime Japanese military.

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Japan, S. Korea vow cooperation on N. Korea nuclear programs

TOKYO, Japan - Hwang Joon Kook (L), South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, and Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 16, 2014, prior to their talks. They agreed to strengthen bilateral and trilateral coordination with the United States on reining in North Korea's missile and nuclear weapons programs. (Pool photo by Jiji Press)

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S. Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman at press conference

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman speaks at a press conference in Seoul on June 24, 2014.

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Foreign ministers of South Korea and China

SEOUL, South Korea - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) shakes hands with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se ahead of their talks at the South Korean foreign ministry in Seoul on May 26, 2014.

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Japan-S. Korea talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara (C), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, leaves the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on April 16, 2014, after holding talks with Lee Sang Deok, director general of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of South Korea's Foreign Ministry.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea meet in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Junichi Ihara, the director general for Asian and Oceanian affairs at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on April 7, 2014, after a meeting with Glyn Davies, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, and Hwang Joon Kook, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs. The three countries restated their commitment to peacefully removing nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and pledged to continue working tightly with each other and with their allies and partners in the international community to focus international attention on the human rights situation in North Korea, according to the U.S. State Department.

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S. Korea lodges protest over Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yong (R) conveys a protest to Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koro Bessho (L) at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on April 4, 2014, over Japan's move to include its territorial claim to a pair of South Korean-held islets in elementary school textbooks.

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Territorial disputes

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai Young issues a statement in Seoul on April 4, 2014. The statement criticized the Japanese government's move to include Tokyo's territorial claim to South Korean-held islands in elementary school textbooks.

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Japan-S. Korea talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Cho Tai Young, a South Korean foreign ministry spokesman, talks about a proposed meeting between senior officials of South Korea and Japan, during a press conference in Seoul on March 27, 2014. Japan and South Korea are considering such a meeting in April to lay the groundwork for a summit, diplomatic sources said the same day.

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S. Korea, Japan hold vice ministerial talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Visiting Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (L) and his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae Yong (R) hold talks at South Korea's Foreign Ministry in Seoul on March 12, 2014.

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Japan vice foreign minister in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki arrives in Gimpo International Airport in Seoul on March 12, 2014. Saiki is making a two-day visit for talks with South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yong and other South Korean officials on bilateral issues and North Korea, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

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S. Korea offers condolences to Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai Young holds a news briefing in Seoul on March 11, 2014. South Korea offered "words of deep consolation" to the bereaved families and victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami on the third anniversary of the disaster.

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S. Korea lodges protest with Japan over Takeshima Day ceremony

SEOUL, South Korea - Hisashi Michigami, minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, arrives at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Feb. 23, 2014. The Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with Michigami over a ceremony held Feb. 22 in Matsue, the capital of the western Japan prefecture of Shimane, to commemorate the Japanese "incorporation" in 1905 of islets known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea. The local government designated Feb. 22 as Takeshima Day in 2005.

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China's Liu, S. Korea's Yun meet over N. Korea issues

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se (R) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin pose ahead of talks at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2014. Liu was visiting South Korea following a four-day trip to Pyongyang.

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China's Liu, S. Korea's Yun meet over N. Korea issues

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se (R) meets with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2014. Liu was visiting South Korea following a four-day trip to Pyongyang.

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Chinese diplomat in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin (far R) and South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Lee Kyung Soo (2nd from L) hold talks at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Feb. 21, 2014.

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Chinese diplomat in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin (L) and South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Lee Kyung Soo shake hands before their talks at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Feb. 21, 2014.

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S. Korea, Japan hold talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara (far R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, answers reporters' questions after holding talks with Lee Sang Deok, director general of the South Korean Foreign Ministry's Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau, in Seoul on Feb. 18, 2014.

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Territorial disputes

SEOUL, South Korea - Koro Bessho (L), the Japanese ambassador to South Korea, is summoned to the South Korean foreign ministry in Seoul and receives a rebuke from South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou Hyun over Japan's renewed claim to disputed isles in new school teaching manuals on Jan. 28, 2014.

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Territorial disputes

SEOUL, South Korea - Koro Bessho (facing), the Japanese ambassador to South Korea, is summoned to the South Korean foreign ministry in Seoul and receives a rebuke from South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou Hyun (R) over Japan's renewed claim to disputed isles in new school teaching manuals on Jan. 28, 2014.