South Korea moves to 'normalise' military pact with Japan

Protesters stage a rally to denounce a summit between South Korea and Japan, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 18, 2023. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday said hats off to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for "making a difficult decision and action" by overcoming the troubled history between the two countries, pledging to work with him toward better future relations. The signs read "President Yoon Suk Yeol's humiliating diplomacy." - AP

SEOUL, March 18, 2023 (AFP): South Korea will fully implement a key military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a defence ministry official told AFP on Saturday, as the two countries move to thaw long-frozen relations and renew diplomacy to counter Pyongyang.

At a fence-mending summit on Thursday, the neighbours agreed to turn the page on a bitter dispute over Japan's use of war-time forced labour.