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S.Korea offers to Japan holding bilateral summit on Nov. 2

Xinhua, October 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has offered to her Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe holding their first bilateral summit on Nov. 2 on the sidelines of the scheduled trilateral summit with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, local media reported Monday citing a presidential official.

The unidentified official told reporters that Seoul and Tokyo had discussed holding the summit between Park and Abe on the sidelines of the trilateral summit with China, which is widely expected to be held in Nov. 1 in Seoul.

The South Korean side proposed the bilateral summit to be held next Monday, waiting for the response from the Japanese side, the official said.

It would mark the first face-to-face meeting between Park and Abe as the South Korean leader has refused, since her inauguration in early 2013, to sit down with the Japanese premier due to his wrong perception of history.

Abe had yet to make a "sincere apology" for Korean "comfort women," forced into sexual slavery for the militarist Japan's wartime military brothels during its colonization of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. Enditem