(MENAFN- QNA) Japanese National Security Adviser Shotaro Yachi plans to make a two-day visit to South Korea this week for talks with his South Korean counterpart Kim Kwan-jin, South Korea's presidential office said Monday.
Kim and Yachi are expected to discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia as well as issues of mutual concern during Yachi's visit on Tuesday and Wednesday, the office said.
The planned visit comes amid Japan's push to repair bilateral relations and set up a summit between South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to South Korea's (Yonhap) News Agency.
Last week, Abe said before leaving for Italy that it would be good if he has a chance to talk to Park on the sidelines of a biennial summit of Asian and European leaders.
Still, Park did not sit down for talks with Abe, the latest move that underscored the deep division between the two neighbors over historical disputes stemming from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul and Tokyo have long been at odds over Japan's territorial claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo as well as the issue of elderly South Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's World War II soldiers.
South Korea has repeatedly urged Japanese leaders to face up to history and take forward-looking measures for the South Korean sex slaves.
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