Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and his South Korean counterpart Park Jin agreed Thursday to speed up their consultations over a wartime labor issue that has soured bilateral ties, a Japanese official said.
In a meeting in Phnom Penh, the two ministers expressed readiness to improve bilateral relations following Yoon Suk-yeol's inauguration as South Korean president in May.
Hayashi and Park made no substantial progress in a dispute over compensation for the wartime labor issue in what became their second face-to-face dialogue in about half a month, the official suggested at a press briefing.