MOON CALLS FOR ‘PEACE ECONOMY’ WITH N. KOREA, SLAMS JAPAN
South Korea’s president described the country’s escalating trade war with Japan as a wakeup call to revamp its economy and issued a nationalistic call for economic cooperation with North Korea, which he said would allow the Koreas to erase Japan’s economic superiority in “one burst.”
President Moon Jae-in made the comments in a meeting with senior aides to discuss Japan’s imposition of trade curbs on South Korea. They came as a surprise since North Korea has raised tensions in recent weeks with tests of new short-range weapons that pose a threat to South Korea’s security. “The advantage Japan’s economy has
