Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dumped fuel on the fire of Tokyo's ongoing military radar spat with South Korea.
Despite Seoul saying last month's incident was nothing more than a misunderstanding,... Abe called it "a dangerous act",... and he urged Seoul to accept the facts.
Lee Seung-jae reports.
Despite South Korea strongly rejecting claims a 32-hundred ton South Korean destroyer recently locked on to a Japanese patrol jet,... Japan continues to verbally fire back at Seoul.
In an interview with Asahi TV on Tuesday,... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the incident "a dangerous act" and South Korea must take measures to prevent something similar happening again.
Abe added Seoul must accept what he called "the facts".
This comes as Japanese media reported Saturday that Tokyo's recent release of video footage related to the incident was at the order of Abe himself.
Local newspapers report Abe summoned Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya to his office,... and ordered the video's immediate release.
In the same interview,... Abe also criticized the South Korean Supreme Court's ruling in favor of Korean victims who were forced into labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula,... saying it's unheard of in international law.
Abe also expressed interest in meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the future to resolve issues involving Japanese nationals who were abducted by the North in the 1970s and 80s.
Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.