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Article: Squid, remorse and unpop music: South Korea and Japan. (South Korean president Kim Dae Jung visits Japan marking improved relations)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 10, 1998
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Two old enemies are at last getting along better
IT WOULD be hard for Kim Dae Jung, South Korea's president, not to have had mixed feelings about his visit to Japan this week. More than two decades have passed since Mr Kim, then an opposition leader, was abducted from an hotel in Tokyo and nearly killed by his country's secret agents. But now Mr Kim was visiting Tokyo as head of state with a mission of his own. He wants to build a solid economic and security alliance with the former coloniser that ruled Korea for 36 years until 1945.
On October 8th, Mr Kim appeared relieved after talks with Keizo Obuchi, the Japanese prime minister, who not only offfered his ...