Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with South Korea's ambassador to Japan Nam Gwan-pyo at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, Japan, July 19, 2019, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan's foreign minister publicly admonished South Korea's ambassador on Friday in a worsening row over compensation for Korean forced labourers that has spilled over into their trade in high-tech materials used to make memory chips and screens.
The dispute between the key U.S. allies took a deadly turn when a South Korean man set himself on fire in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in an apparent protest. He died later.
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