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Comprehensive Korean Associated Press, Japan Community Press reports, South Korean PresidentLee Jae-myungOn the 25th local time, he held talks with US President Trump at the White House. At the meeting, the two talked about South Korea-Japan relations. Trump asked Lee Jae-myung, "Will the problems left over from history make it difficult for South Korea and Japan to get along?" To this, Lee Jae-myung responded that Trump's worries had been solved.

South Korean President Lee held a meeting with U.S. President Trump at the White House on May 25 local time.

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 ROK-US summit, 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, Li Zaiming also said that South Korea-US-Japan cooperation is a very important issue. In order to promote the development of South Korea-US relations, South Korea-Japan relations should also be improved to a certain extent.

It is worth noting that South Korean President Lee Jae-ming visited Japan on the 23rd and held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Prime Minister's residence. No historical issues were covered in the joint communiqué after the meeting. On the 24th, when introducing the results of the South Korea-Japan summit held the previous day, South Korea's National Security Office Director Wei Shengluo said that although the two sides involved historical issues, they did not discuss specific issues, but focused on how to properly deal with relevant issues and promote future cooperation. Directional exchanges were conducted.

South Korea's citizens' groups condemned the joint communique ́ for not addressing historical issues, sparking strong discontent in South Korea. According to the Korean National Daily, South Korea's "Justice Memory Alliance" said that to evaluate the summit meeting and the joint communique ́, it is "the justice of history is covered up by the so-called'practical diplomacy 'rhetoric." South Korea's "Institute for Ethnic Issues" said that the South Korean government "avoided talking about the Japanese government and Japanese war criminal enterprises that ignored Korea's judicial sovereignty" and instead used Japanese rhetoric in the communique ́, expressing serious concern.

In response to the fact that the joint communiqué of the South Korea-Japan summit did not involve historical issues, Lee Zai-ming said in an interview on the 24th that he expected criticism for doing so, but would continue to promote cooperation with Japan even if he was opposed. Li Zai-ming said he believed that there was no need to give up cooperation with Japan because historical and territorial issues had not yet been resolved.