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Comprehensive Korean Associated Press, Japan Community Press reports, South Korean PresidentLee is out.He held talks with U.S. President Trump at the White House on the 25th local time. At the meeting, the two talked about South Korea-Japan relations. Trump asked Lee Zai-ming,"Will problems left over from history make it difficult for South Korea and Japan to get along with each other?" In response, Li Zaiming said that Trump's concerns have been resolved.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung held talks with US President Trump at the White House on the 25th local time. Photo from Korean media

According to reports, when answering media questions about South Korea-Japan relations at the meeting, Trump said that he knew that there were sensitive issues such as "comfort women" between South Korea and Japan, and asked "whether the issues left over from history would make it difficult for South Korea and Japan to get along". In this regard, Lee Jae-myung said, "Considering that Trump attaches great importance to the cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan", he chose to visit Japan before the summit meeting between South Korea and the United States, which was intended to deal with Trump's concerns in advance. Li Zaiming said that when he met with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, he felt that many obstacles between the two countries had been eliminated.

According to reports, Lee Jae-myung also said that cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan is a very important issue. In order to promote the development of Korea-US relations, Korea-Japan relations should also be improved to a certain extent.

It is worth noting that South Korean President Lee Jae-myung visited Japan on the 23rd to hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Prime Minister's residence. No historical issues were involved in the joint communique after the meeting. On the 24th, Wei Shengluo, director of the National Security Office of South Korea, introduced the results of the Korea-Japan summit held the day before, saying that although the two sides involved historical issues, they did not discuss specific issues, but conducted directional exchanges on how to properly deal with related issues and promote future cooperation.

The joint communique of the Korea-Japan summit did not involve historical issues, which caused strong dissatisfaction in South Korea, and many Korean civic groups condemned this. According to the Korean National Daily, South Korea's "Justice Memory Alliance" said that it is necessary to evaluate the Korea-Japan summit and joint communique in one sentence, that is, "the justice of history is covered up by the so-called 'practical diplomacy' rhetoric". South Korea's "Institute of Ethnic Studies" said that the South Korean government "avoided talking about the Japanese government and Japanese war criminal enterprises that ignored South Korea's judicial sovereignty", but instead used the Japanese rhetoric in the communique, expressing serious concern about this.

In response to the fact that the joint communique of the ROK-Japan summit did not involve historical issues, Lee Jae-myung said in an interview on the 24th that he expected to be criticized for doing so, but he would continue to promote cooperation with Japan even if he was opposed. Lee Jae-myung said that he didn't think it was necessary to give up cooperation with Japan because historical and territorial issues had not been resolved.