SEOUL: Japan should refrain from flying the “Rising Sun” flag on a warship in a fleet review planned in South Korea next week, a North Korean propaganda website said, joining South Koreans in the latest spat over the countries’ colonial history.
Relations between the neighbours and Japan have long been strained by lingering resentment over Japanese colonisation, territorial disputes and the issue of girls and women forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels.
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