Japan and South Korea Deepen Bilateral Ties

The leaders of Japan and South Korea pledged during a call on Monday to work toward laying aside decades of animosity between their nations and fortifying cohesive bilateral ties.

Advancing the relationship: During the 25-minute call, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung acknowledged the need to cooperate more closely.

Both are treaty allies of the United States and have relied heavily on American security for decades. But as America turns inward and erratic, as North Korea grows more belligerent and closer to Russia, and as China’s aggression intensifies, the two see an urgent need for deeper ties.

The importance of Korea-Japan relations is increasing in today’s strategic environment. We hope that South Korea and Japan will respond to future challenges together from the perspective of mutual national interests and seek a direction for coexistence.
—Lee Jae Myung

Prophetic pivot: Japan and South Korea currently aim to build an alliance to better stand up to Asia’s revisionist powers—namely China, Russia and North Korea. But Bible prophecy shows that as America declines and as those revisionist powers rise and form an axis, efforts by other Asian countries to counter the axis will not last long.

As the U.S. retreats, expect Japan and South Korea to recalculate and switch their allegiance to the axis led by Russia and China, which is prophesied to field an army of 200 million soldiers.

To learn more, read “Japan Attempts to Build Anti-China Alliance—Will it Work?”