Japan and South Korea have broadly agreed to resume a long-suspended security dialogue later this month on the current status of the Korean Peninsula and wider East Asian region, bilateral diplomatic sources said.
The dialogue, involving senior foreign affairs and defense officials, has not been held since December 2009 due to deteriorating bilateral ties over and a territorial dispute and historical issues, including "comfort women" recruited to work in wartime brothels for the Imperial military during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the peninsula.
Foreign ministers of both nations agreed at a meeting in Seoul last month to hold the dialogue at the earliest convenience, the sources said Saturday.