Seoul: South Korea has custom made furniture for tomorrow’s summit between President Moon Jae-in and the North’s leader Kim Jong-un – with chairs featuring disputed islands controlled by Seoul but claimed by Tokyo.
One thing the rival Koreas share is a resentment of Japan, which imposed brutal colonial rule on the peninsula from 1910 to 1945, and the gesture is likely to irritate Tokyo.
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