Seoul, Tokyo fail to make progress in strained relations
Foreign affairsMar 12, 2014
South Korea and Japan held vice ministerial level talks on Wednesday to discuss their strained relations, but not much progress was made despite hopes for a diplomatic thaw, a government official here said.In the meeting between South Korea's newly named Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yong and his Japanese counterpart Akitaka Saiki, the officials only reiterated their previous stances, the foreign affairs official said.The Seoul-Tokyo high-level talks, the first of their kind since Japanese Prime