S. Korean president says to improve ties with Japan based on 1998 declaration


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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Monday to improve ties with Japan based on the 1998 declaration adopted by then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and then Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. "We must swiftly and properly improve (South) Korea-Japan relations by upholding the spirit of the Kim Dae-jung-Obuchi Declaration which proposed a blueprint of a comprehensive future for (South) Korea-Japan relations," Yoon said in a Liberation Day speech. The speech was delivered to mark the 77th anniversary of the Korean Peninsula's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule. The declaration stated that South Korea and Japan need to face...