Australia wants Japan and South Korea to resolve recent disputes, Foreign Minister Bob Carr says. Source: AAP
AUSTRALIA wants Japan and South Korea to resolve recent disputes between them in the interests of enhanced regional security, Foreign Minister Bob Carr says.
He met with Japan's new Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Sydney on Sunday, with security in the Asia-Pacific region high on the agenda, particularly following a recent missile launch by North Korea.
Complicating matters and causing concern in the United States is a falling out between Japan and South Korea over a territorial dispute and Japan's attitude toward its colonial past.
Senator Carr told reporters he and Mr Kishida had discussed Australia's new role on the United Nations Security Council and the missile launch.
"We hope to be able to work closely with Japan when it comes to shaping a response on the Security Council to that unsatisfactory and illegal behaviour by North Korea," he said.
"The over-riding consideration here is enhanced security and peace in northeast Asia and that is helped if there is agreement and cooperation at the highest level between the Republic of Korea and Japan.
"Because both nations are such good friends of Australia's, we look forward to a resolution of any differences between them."
Mr Kishida said "difficult issues" were occurring between Japan and South Korea.
"Our stance is to look at this from a broad perspective and seek a peaceful resolution," he said.
There have been suggestions new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may disavow a 1993 statement by Japan apologising for the suffering of South Korean "comfort women" forced into providing sex for Japanese servicemen during World War II.
But Mr Kishida said Mr Abe was "truly distressed" by the suffering of those women and his thoughts on the issue had not changed from those of previous prime ministers.
Senator Carr said the 1993 statement related to "an episode that was one of the darkest in modern history" and it was in "no one's interest that the acknowledgement be revisited".
Mr Kishida said a territorial dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands needed to be resolved "without getting heated about it".
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