Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol talked on the phone Friday, agreeing to cooperate toward improving their countries' ties, signaling a thaw in their icy relations strained by wartime history disputes.
After their 15-minute talk, Kishida told reporters that “sound relations” between Japan and its important neighbor, South Korea, are “indispensable in achieving the rules-based international order and ensuring peace, stability and prosperity in the region and the world,” just as the international society is faced with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
