Japan and South Korea are arranging for their foreign ministers to meet later this month on the sidelines of a gathering of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, government sources said Monday.
Taro Kono of Japan and Kang Kyung-wha of South Korea are expected to discuss the issue of compensation for laborers made to work during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula through the end of World War II, as well as recent developments concerning North Korea.
The talks, slated to coincide with an OECD ministerial council meeting to be held in Paris from May 22 to 23, would be their first since they met in mid-February in Munich, where they were attending a security forum.