Biden Welcomes South Korea’s Efforts to Warm Relations With Japan

President Biden hosted the leaders of Japan and South Korea less than two years after relations between the two Asian nations hit a low point and despite entrenched anger in Korea over Japan’s decades-long occupation of the peninsula. The warming relations between the two nations has been largely driven by a change of policy under President Yoon Seok Yul, who took office in May 2022, and the thaw highlights how willing Korean officials appear to be to resolve or downplay traditional conflicts in order to address increasingly urgent security issues...