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Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki will embark on a two-day trip to Korea beginning
Wednesday amid frayed ties between the two sides due to a number of historical and territorial
issues. Japan's Foreign Ministry says Saiki will meet
with his Korean counterpart Cho Tae-yong and other officials for talks on bilateral relations
and issues related to North Korea. Much attention is on the result of the talks
since Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se's demand at a UN session last week that Japan
admit to its *** enslavement of Korean women during the Second World War and make
efforts for a resolution of the issue. The talks will be the first high-level meeting
between the two nations since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's trip last December to
a shrine that honors Japan's war dead, and several class-A war criminals.