CHENGDU, China/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe asked South Korea's president on Tuesday to take steps to resolve a bitter dispute at their first bilateral talks in 15 months, a sign that while the mood is improving, knotty problems between the U.S. allies remain.
Abe and South Korean President
Moon Jae-in stressed, at their meeting in
China, the need to improve ties after the worst period of tension between their countries in decades.
Relations have been strained since South Korea's
Supreme Court last year ordered Japanese firms to compensate some South Koreans forced to work for them during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.