President Lee Jae Myung speaks throughout a press convention with overseas media correspondents on the presidential workplace in Yongsan, Seoul, Wednesday. Courtesy of the presidential workplace
President Lee Jae Myung stated Wednesday that Korea might play a mediating function, the place doable, to ease rising tensions between China and Japan, stressing that taking sides would solely escalate the dispute.
Lee made the comment throughout a press convention with overseas media, when requested by a reporter if Korea was prepared to precise assist for Japan amid the tensions sparked by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks.
“Taking sides would solely escalate the battle. This is applicable to each private relationships and worldwide relations. Moderately than taking sides, it is higher to hunt methods to coexist,” Lee stated.
“The place doable, it’s fascinating to attenuate the battle and play a task in mediating and coordination,” he stated.
Relations between Beijing and Tokyo have badly frayed after Takaichi urged {that a} army assault on Taiwan might immediate a response by Japan’s Self-Protection Forces, calling it a “survival-threatening state of affairs” for Japan.
In obvious retaliation, China has suggested its folks towards touring to Japan and suspended its current determination to renew seafood imports from the neighboring nation.
China considers Taiwan, self-governed because it broke away from the mainland in 1949, as a part of its territory that have to be reunified by power if obligatory, and it has strongly objected to any nation that challenges this stance.
