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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 17 december 2019
Japan, South Korea hold export talks, seek dispute solution

By MARI YAMAGUCHI erly guarding against the
Associated Press re-export of sensitive mate-
TOKYO (AP) — Japan and rials to third countries.
South Korea were unable He said the two sides dis-
to settle their sharp differ- cussed a wide range of is-
ences in talks Monday on sues, including export con-
Japanese restrictions on trols on sensitive materials,
high-tech exports to South conventional weapons
Korea but agreed to con- and screening procedures,
tinue their dialogue, offi- and “were able to pro-
cials said. mote mutual understand-
The talks in Tokyo were the ing.”
first since Japan tightened “Taking into consideration
controls in July on exports the current international
to South Korea of materials security environment, we
used in the manufacture shared the view that it is
of smartphones, television necessary to promote ef-
screens and other high- fective export controls
tech products, citing na- within their areas of re-
tional security concerns. sponsibility and discretion,”
A month later, Japan also Kajiyama said.
removed South Korea from He said the two sides
a list of preferential trading agreed to continue a dia-
partners. Lee Ho-hyeon, third from right, director-general for International Trade Policy at South Korea’s logue on export control
The steps have contribut- Trade, Industry and Energy Ministry, and Yoichi Iida, fourth from left, director-general of Japan’s policies with the aim of
ed to a sharp escalation in Trade Control Department attend a director-general level meeting at the trade ministry in Tokyo resolving their differences,
tensions between the two Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. Associated Press and plan to hold their next
countries and pushed their meeting in Seoul at an un-
relations to the lowest level former Korean laborers for The talks Monday between ward,” Japanese trade specified time in the near
in decades. their treatment during Ja- Yoichi Iida, director-gener- minister Hiroshi Kajiyama future.
South Korea has demand- pan’s 1910-1945 colonial al of Japan’s Trade Con- said of the talks, but added Japan’s trade curbs
ed that Japan reverse its rule of the Korean Penin- trol Department, and his that more dialogue is nec- against South Korea led to
measures, saying Tokyo sula. Tokyo has insisted that South Korean counterpart, essary before Japan can retaliatory measures that
is using trade controls to a 1965 agreement estab- Lee Ho-hyeon, were the regain confidence in South spilled into national secu-
retaliate for recent South lishing diplomatic relations first at that level between Korean export controls and rity, with Seoul threatening
Korean court rulings that between the two countries the countries in more than is able to reverse its mea- to abandon a key military
ordered Japanese com- settled all compensation is- three years. sures. Japan has accused intelligence sharing pact
panies to compensate sues. “We made a step for- South Korea of not prop- with Tokyo.q

Wife of Zimbabwe’s VP is charged with attempting to kill him

By FARAI MUTSAKA stay at a hotel instead
Associated Press of a hospital when he
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) was flown to South Africa
— The wife of Zimbabwe’s for emergency medical
vice president has been treatment, according to
charged with attempting the charge sheet.
to kill her husband. While Chiwenga was in
Marry Chiwenga, a for- the hospital on July 8, she
mer model and wife of went to his room, asked
Vice President Constanti- security to leave and,
no Chiwenga, appeared while alone with him, re-
at the Harare Magistrates moved an intravenous
Court Monday where she drip and a catheter,
was also charged with causing him to bleed pro-
money laundering and fusely, according to the
fraud. charge sheet.
Wearing a floral dress, she She then forced him off
waved to journalists as the bed and tried to
she entered the court’s bring him out of the ward
holding cells. The magis- before being intercepted
trate ordered that she re- by his security detail, the
main in custody pending charges said.
a bail hearing. Chiwenga later went to
She is accused of try- China where he received
ing to kill her husband in medical treatment for
South Africa in July. four months and he re-
First, she tried to deny In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018 file photo Zimbabwean Deputy President Constantino Chiwenga is turned to Zimbabwe in
seen with his wife Marry, right, upon arrival for the inauguration ceremony of President Emmerson
medical treatment to Mnangagwa, at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. November. q
Chiwenga by insisting he Associated Press