South Korea's president to visit Tokyo for first time in 12 years

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will travel to Japan for talks with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Reuters informs.

Yoon's two-day visit to Japan, scheduled to start on March 16, will be the first such trip by a South Koran leader in 12 years.

"This visit ... will be an important milestone in the improvement of relations between South Korea and Japan which has been promoted by the Yoon administration since its inauguration," Yoon's national security adviser, Kim Sung-Han, told a briefing.

South Korea has recently announced that its companies would compensate victims of forced labour under Japan's colonial rule from 1910-1945, seeking to end a dispute that has undermined US-led efforts to present a unified front against China and North Korea.