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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,...
