SEOUL -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in's new choice of ambassador to Tokyo is a fluent Japanese speaker with close ties to lawmakers in the country, but faces the thorny task of mending relations between the two East Asian neighbors.
Moon has tasked Kang Chang-il, a former four-term lawmaker in the ruling Democratic Party and leader of the South Korea-Japan Parliamentarians' Union for four years until May, with finding a solution to the issue of wartime labor that has set the countries at odds.
