Seongho Sheen, Associate Professor at Seoul National University, and Jina Kim, Associate Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, explain that “it may take time for the South Korean government to regain the trust of the Korean public and rebuild support to resume negotiations for the improvement of military relations with Japan.”

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