South Korea Offers a Resolution to Wartime Labor Dispute With Japan

SEOUL — South Korea "‹said on Monday that it had proposed a resolution to one of its"‹ thorniest historical disputes with Japan,"‹ in hopes of mending fractured ties"‹ between the key American allies"‹. The government said it had created a foundation that would pool funds from South Korean businesses and use the money to compensate Koreans who were forced into labor by companies in Japan, which then ruled Korea as a colony, during World War II. The issue sent the two countries' relations to one of the lowest points in decades after a 2018 ruling by South Korea's Supreme Court,…