Japan warns that relations with South Korea are in a 'severe state'

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Japan warns that relations with South Korea are in a 'severe state'
BLOOMBERG, JIJI Jan 7

On Sunday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would consider countermeasures to protect Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. assets from seizure by South Korean courts.

“Relations between Japan and South Korea are in a severe state,” Suga, Japan’s top government spokesman, told a regular news conference in Tokyo, calling recent moves by Seoul “regrettable.”

Mistrust between the two neighbors has also grown as both sides trade accusations about who was in the wrong over a December incident in which Japan claims a South Korean naval vessel used a target-lock radar on its patrol aircraft. Seoul argued the plane was flying in a “provocative” manner and called on Tokyo to apologize.

On Monday, Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers called for U.N. Security Council discussions on the incident in which a South Korean warship directed its fire-control radar at a Japanese patrol plane.

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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/07/national/japan-warns-relations-south-korea-severe-state/#.XDOSgVxKhPY

[Iliyah]

1. Oh my.

The Koreas and Japan don't like each every since WW2 and probably before.

Ugh.