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[NY Times] Japan and South Korea Stop Playing Nice

On Wednesday in Beijing, the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan convened like feuding officemates compelled to make amends. The air around them vibrated with resentment, which had built up over months of verbal slights and legal and economic assaults, and was rooted in old histories of colonization as much as recent jockeying for regional stature.

Taro Kono of Japan posed a question to his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha: What did Seoul plan to do about the bilateral intelligence-sharing pact that the two countries had signed in 2016 and was coming up for renewal? Ms. Kang replied that she did not know. But by the time her flight landed back home on Thursday, her boss, President Moon Jae-in, had made his decision. South Korea would withdraw.

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