The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Friday...South Korea and Japan will hold a meeting in Brunei on Sunday concerning the fishing dispute involving South Korean access to waters around the disputed Kuril islands.
On the sidelines of the ASEAN Plus Three (South Korea, China and Japan) summit that opens Sunday in the South East Asian sultanate, both sides will discuss specific and reasonable measures to resolve the fishing dispute.
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Yim Sung-joon and Choo Kyu-ho, director general at the foreign ministry's Asian and Pacific affairs bureau will represent Korea at the talks.
Japan will be represented by Vice Japanese Foreign Minister Toshiyuki Takano.
The talks were arranged following an agreement reached at the summit meeting between President Kim Dae-jung and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi late last month in Shanghai.
The issue surfaced recently as Tokyo and Moscow reportedly struck an agreement banning South Korea and other third countries from fishing saury in waters near the southern Kurils, controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan since the end of World War II in 1945.