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Entered 2024.10.31 00:10 Modified 2024.10.31 00:13 Reporter Oh Su-jin ([email protected])

Ishiba is at a crossroads regarding his position as prime minister after the Liberal Democratic Party’s crushing defeat.

The Japanese government’s diplomacy with Japan, which had focused on cooperation with the Liberal Democratic Party, was shaken.

“Efforts to improve existing Korea-Japan relations must continue.”

President Yoon Seok-yeol welcomes Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Korea-Japan summit held at a hotel in Vientiane, Laos, on the 10th (local time). ⓒYonhap News

With the Liberal Democratic Party losing for the first time in 15 years in the Japanese House of Representatives election, a change in the landscape of our diplomacy with Japan, which had previously focused on cooperation with the Liberal Democratic Party, is felt. There are concerns that the Liberal Democratic Party, which has been friendly to our government so far, will lose a lot of trust, putting a dark cloud over Korea-Japan relations.

According to local media on the 30th, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is at a crossroads after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat in the Japanese House of Representatives election on the 27th. With the special National Assembly expected to convene on the 11th of next month to nominate the next Prime Minister, there is confusion over the election of the next Prime Minister, whether he will maintain his position and continue the ruling party’s ruling party, or whether the government will be completely replaced.

Even if Prime Minister Ishiba maintains his position, the Liberal Democratic Party’s crushing defeat is expected to hit a turning point in Korea-Japan relations. In particular, negative effects are being observed.

Experts believe that there will be a disruption in the schedule for the memorial ceremony for the Korean victims of the Sado Mine between the two countries, which was scheduled for next month. In addition, it is expected that the Korea-U.S.-Japan summit to be held in December will have a significant impact. If Trump is elected in the US presidential election held on the 5th of next month, the meeting between the current President Joe Biden, President Yoon Seok-yeol, and Prime Minister Ishiba will also have no meaning.

Park Jin-ki, a Daewoo professor at Sejong University, said, “The weakening of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s position will have an impact on the planned memorial ceremony at the Sado Mine in both countries and the Korea-U.S.-Japan summit in December,” adding, “However, nothing is certain yet, so accurate information about changes in the U.S. and Japan is needed.” “Collection and analysis are required,” he explained.

Accordingly, there are voices calling for the Yoon Seok-yeol government’s diplomatic strategy to be quickly reorganized. In a situation where close military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, including the North Korean military’s participation in the war of aggression against Ukraine, threatens the security of the Korean Peninsula, the need to maintain cooperative relations between Korea and Japan is greatly emphasized.

Professor Park emphasized, “Efforts to improve the existing Korea-Japan relationship must continue,” and “Korea-U.S.-Japan cooperation is more important than anything else in order to respond to Russia’s military alliance.”

He said, “Japan’s policies toward North Korea and Russia are bound to be the same as ours, so we need to take a more detailed approach focusing on this issue.”

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito majority collapse… The direction of the U.S. government’s diplomacy toward Japan is

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