South Korea's foreign affairs and trade minister expressed anger Thursday at the way Japan has handled a territorial dispute and its approval of revisionist history and civics textbooks.
"Japan has glorified its history and is going to teach a distorted version to young people," Ban Ki Moon told Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura at the outset of bilateral talks in Islamabad.
Ban broke protocol and in the presence of reporters went straight into the issues that have frayed relations between the two countries.