Seoul, Oct 29 (Prensa Latina) the long/awaited meeting between South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will take place next November 1st, the South Korean presidential office announced.
It is expected that, for the first time since Park took office in 2013, she will officially meet the Japanese Head of State, despite historical and political disagreements.

The meeting will take place at the presidential Blue House, on the sidelines od the the trilateral meeting between China, South Korea and Japan, Kim Kyou-Hyun, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs said.

These meetings were initiated in 2008 and had been annually held until 2012, when they stopped mainly due to frosty relations between South Korea and Japan over sensitive historical disputes.

One of the main issues of dispute between the countries is Japan's refusal to offer a sincere apology and compensation to the thousands of Asian "comfort women" forced into prostitution by Japanâ�Ös military during its colonization of much of Asia until the end of World War Two.