South Korea and China reacted guardedly to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor, with both saying Japan should try harder to reconcile with the countries it victimized before and during World War II.
A South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday that Japan should "make more efforts for reconciliation and cooperation with neighboring countries that were victims of its militarism in the past, on the basis of a correct recognition of history."
The official avoided directly commenting on Abe's speech at Pearl Harbor, other than to note that he vowed that Japan would never again wage war and spoke of Japan as a peace-loving nation.