<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a8e9620391d9419008b4604-2000/jocelyne%20lamoureux-davidson.jpg" alt="Jocelyne Lamoureux Davidson" data-mce-source="Getty Images"><p class="source"><span>Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson skates away as she scores past Shannon Szabados.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><ul><li><strong>USA defeated Canada after a dramatic penalty shootout in the 2018 Winter Olympics women's ice hockey final on Thursday.</strong></li><li><strong>Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson practiced a routine for four years and executed it perfectly to score the match-winning penalty.</strong></li><li><strong>The move even has a name - the "Oops, I did it again."</strong></li></ul><hr><p>&#xa0;</p><p>American ice hockey forward Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson etched her name into Winter Olympics history on Thursday.</p><p>In <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/united-states-gold-over-canada-shootout-womens-hockey-2018-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a gripping women's ice hockey final at the Gangneung Hockey Centre in South Korea</a>, it was Lamoureux's match-winning penalty that saw USA score a sudden death victory over North American rival Canada.</p><p>Lamoureux dropped her shoulder, feinted to the left, and gracefully manoeuvred the puck around Canadian goalkeeper Shannon Szabados, before flicking a shot over the line from close range.</p><p>The move even has a name. "It's called 'Oops, I did it again,'" Lamoureux said, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/42981159" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the BBC</a>.</p><p><strong>Here is the move in all its glory:</strong></p><p>"I've done that thousands of times around tyres just set out on open ice," a "thrilled" Lamoureux said.</p><p>However, it has taken years of practice to get it right.</p><p>"I've butchered it a thousand times, ran into tyres, tripped over tyres just working on my hands," she added. "I'm just glad it worked out this time."</p><p>The match was tied at 2-2 when the penalty shoot-out was called, meaning whichever team won via sudden death would win gold.</p><p>Both USA and Canada had scored five penalties each by the time it was Lamoureux's turn, and her goal came moments before an unsuccessful Canadian penalty. USA had done it.</p><p>"This victory is special and it's going to give us an even bigger platform to make a bigger difference," she said.</p><p>Lamoureux's twin sister Monique Lamoureux-Morando, who scored earlier in the game, said: "It's a move that our coach Peter Elander worked on with us over the last four years, not just on the goalie, but against defenders.</p><p>"We've screwed it up plenty of times, but she pulled the perfect time to pull it off."</p><p>It is the USA's first women's ice hockey gold medal for 20 years.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>LAMOUREUX'S WINNER. USA GETS GOLD <a href="https://t.co/zzPWyilraE">pic.twitter.com/zzPWyilraE</a></p>- Pete Blackburn  (@PeteBlackburn) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/966571968916058112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2018</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/future-olympics-no-country-wants-to-host-games-2018-2">No one wants to host the Olympics anymore -&#xa0;will they go away?</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/p34fCU9Q-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div></hr>

This is the hilarious name USA women's hockey hero Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson gave to her gold medal-winning penalty shot

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a7cdb7ad03072920e8b4686-1629/ap18036437853741.jpg" alt="Moon Jae-in" data-mce-source="Jae C. Hong/AP" data-mce-caption="South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during the opening ceremony of the 132nd IOC session ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018." /><p class="source"><span>Jae C. Hong/AP</span></p><p class="caption">South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during the opening ceremony of the 132nd IOC session ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, February 5, 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>Diplomatic sources cited by CNN said there is a "good chance" that Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, will invite the South Korean president Moon Jae-in to North Korea.</strong></li><li><strong>The rumored proposal could be held "sometime this year," according to the report, with some believing it could be on August 15, a national holiday for North and South Korea.</strong></li><li><strong>If the invitation is accepted, it will be the highest-level of contact between the two countries in years.</strong></li></ul><hr /><p><br />Diplomatic sources cited by CNN on Thursday said there is a "<a href="https://twitter.com/willripleyCNN/status/961739017019535360" target="_blank" rel="noopener">good chance</a>" that Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, will invite South Korean president Moon Jae-in to North Korea "sometime this year." </p><p>A luncheon between the leaders is scheduled for Saturday and will be the highest-level of contact between the two countries since they cut diplomatic ties two years ago.</p><p>Sources told CNN correspondent Will Ripley that, although the proposal was not certain, Moon's potential trip to the North could happen on August 15, South Korea's Liberation Day. The holiday, which is observed by South and North Korea, celebrates the countries' independence from Japan.</p><p>The presidential trip would be the first of its kind since President Roh Moo-hyun met with Kim Jong-il for the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/04/koreas.summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inter-Korean summit</a> in 2007.</p><p>On Friday, Moon met with Vice President Mike Pence, who is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/08/politics/mike-pence-moon-jae-in-north-korea/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduled to lead the US delegation</a> for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The two leaders reaffirmed the alliance between the US and South Korea.</p><p>"Our resolve to stand with you is unshakable," Pence said, according to CNN. "The United States of America will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder in our effort to bring maximum pressure to bear on North Korea until that time comes when they finally and permanently and irreversibly abandon their nuclear missile ambition."</p><p>Pence also left open the possibility of meeting with North Korea's delegation.</p><p>"We haven't requested a meeting with North Korea, but if I have any contact with them - in any context - over the next two days, my message will be the same as it was here today: North Korea needs to once and for all abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile ambitions," Pence said.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-yo-jong-kim-jong-un-sister-life-bio-photos-2018-2/#like-many-of-kims-family-members-kim-yo-jongs-exact-age-is-difficult-to-pin-down-but-shes-believed-to-be-between-29-and-31-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yo Jung</a>, who is part of an official delegation that includes the ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong-nam, is expected to arrive to South Korea ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/president-trump-theresa-may-davos-false-rumour-2018-1">President Trump tells Theresa May not to believe the 'false rumour' that he doesn't 'have great respect for everything you're doing'</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/gRVAvL1d-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

South Korean president Moon Jae-in could receive a historic invitation to North Korea from Kim Jong Un's sister

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a82e054d030721c008b46ab-2000/gettyimages-917724896.jpg" alt="Elise Christie" data-mce-source="Getty Images"><p class="source"><span>Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">British speed skater Elise Christie crashed out of the short track 500-metre final on Tuesday.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><ul><li><strong>British medal hopeful Elise Christie just crashed out of the 500-metre speed skating final for the second Winter Olympics in a row.</strong></li><li><strong>She got death threats and had to shut down her Twitter after the 2014 games, when she wiped out a Korean athlete as she collided with the ice.</strong></li><li><strong>But Christie has two more attempts to chase a medal.</strong></li></ul><hr><p><br>History just repeated itself for one of Great Britain's medal hopefuls at the Winter Olympics.</br></p><p>Speed skater Elise Christie crashed out of the 500-metre short track speed skating event on Tuesday, four years after a similar tumble at the last winter games in Sochi.</p><p>Christie cruised through the women's 500-metre quarter-final and semi-final stages at the Gangneung Ice Arena in South Korea. But during a fiercely competed final, she was thrown off balance by Dutch rival Yara van Kerkhof.</p><p>"I was knocked over," the devastated skater said in a tearful interview with the BBC after the race. "I can't see living with this feeling."</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a82e191d03072dc0f8b457a-749/screen%20shot%202018-02-13%20at%20125340.png" alt="Elise Christie" data-mce-source="BBC screenshot"><p class="source"><span>BBC screenshot</span></p><p class="caption">Christie was tearful in an interview with the BBC.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>The defeat will have been a painful one as she crashed out in similar fashion four years ago at the 2014 Winter Olympics.</p><p>At the Sochi games she hit the deck, took out a South Korean athlete, and then received death threats so severe she had to close her Twitter account. She later sought help from a psychologist.</p><p>"I had a crash at the games [in Sochi]," <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/42878234" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she explained recently to the BBC</a>. "The Korean girl was taken out and I then received a lot of death threats and online abuse from South Koreans."</p><p><a href="https://www.scotsman.com/sport/more-in-sport/korea-death-threats-sent-elise-christie-to-psychologist-1-4536340" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speaking to The Scotsman last year</a>, Christie added: "Eventually, I had to go and ask for some help. I struggled with the fact that my sport led to death threats. I couldn't link how that worked."</p><p>But between Sochi and Pyeongchang, she said Korean fans "were really sorry for how they treated me" and forgave her. "People became fans," she said.</p><p>Despite falling in the 500-metre short track speed skating final, Christie has two more chances to get a medal. She contests the 1,500 short track speed skating event on Saturday before the 1,000-metre event next Tuesday.</p><p><strong>Here's Christie's interview with the BBC:</strong></p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>"In my feelings I was knocked over, I didn't fall on my own... I've worked so hard for the 500 and it's been taken away from me"<br><br>Utter heartbreak for Elise Christie<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WinterOlympics2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WinterOlympics2018</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bbcolympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bbcolympics</a> <a href="https://t.co/ceWfdbvQKB">pic.twitter.com/ceWfdbvQKB</a></br></br></p>- BBC Sport  (@BBCSport) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/963389535865352192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2018</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/vince-stephanie-shane-mcmahon-wwe-successor-triple-h-jim-ross-wrestling-2018-1">JIM ROSS: Here's who will take over WWE after Vince McMahon</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/BDTTW4pO-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div></hr>

The speed skater who received death threats at the last Winter Olympics just crashed out of another final

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a5db25a28eecc6c0f8b4da0-2000/ap794931085715.jpg" alt="samjiwon" data-mce-source="David Guttenfelder/AP" data-mce-caption="In this Feb. 17, 2013 photo, an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is projected on a screen behind an orchestra and choir during a performance in Pyongyang, North Korea." /><p class="source"><span>David Guttenfelder/AP</span></p><p class="caption">An image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is projected on a screen behind an orchestra and choir during a performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, February 17, 2013.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>North Korea announced it would send a 140-member art troupe, including an orchestra, as part of its delegation for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.</strong></li><li><strong>The art troupe's performances, which normally include propaganda messages, is under scrutiny.</strong></li></ul><hr /><p><br />North Korea <a href="http://www.unikorea.go.kr/unikorea/news/live/?boardId=bbs_0000000000000003&amp;mode=view&amp;cntId=54398&amp;category=&amp;pageIdx=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Monday that it would send a 140-member art troupe, including an orchestra, as part of its delegation for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, according to the South Korean government.</p><p>Eighty orchestra members and 60 singers and dancers will be <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/world/asia/north-korea-orchestra-south-korea-olympics.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performing</a> in Seoul, the capital; and Gangneung, where the North Koreans will be housed for the trip, according to The New York Times. North Korea's upcoming performance will mark the first time in 16 years the country has appeared in South Korea, and the largest ever assembled for a performance in the country.</p><p>"We believe that a great symphony will be enthusiastically received," Kwon Hyok-bong, North Korea's chief delegate, reportedly <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/north-south-korea-discuss-troupe-olympics-visit-180115062255988.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. "In that sense, we hope that the talks could go smoothly so as to help our art troupe perform well in the South."</p><p>The agreement follows the second round of the bilateral talks between North and South Korea at the border, the first official talks between the neighboring countries in two years.</p><p>During the talks, North Korea reportedly expressed <a href="http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/nk/2018/01/16/4807070000AKR20180116047100014.HTML" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interest</a> in having its art troupe walk across the border, similar to the handful of delegates that arrived for the first round of the talks last week. Although the gesture may be symbolic for the two countries ahead of the Winter Olympics, the large number of performers that would be crossing the border was said to be unprecedented and would require advice from the United Nations Command.</p><p>The proposed border-crossing of a large delegation may also set the stage for North Korea to grab media attention for propaganda purposes - winning hearts at home and minds abroad. Similar trips in the past from North Korean delegates resulted in propaganda puffery, including one incident where a delegation got off their bus in tears, and took down a poster of their leader shaking hands with the South Korean president.</p><p>The bilateral talks also fueled speculation on whether the Moranbong Band, a North Korean all-female band formed by Kim Jong Un himself, will also be performing after its leader, Hyon Song-wol, attended the meetings.</p><p>Despite the apparent warming relations with the South Korea, the North's upcoming performances could still lead to new provocations and a fresh diplomatic row with the South. Past performances centered around propaganda messaging, including glorifying North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, and promoting the country's missile capabilities.</p><p>But North Korean delegates have <a href="http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/nk/2018/01/16/4807060000AKR20180116089600014.HTML" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assured</a> South Korea that it would select musical tracks familiar to both countries, such as folk songs, and that they would "fit with the mood of reunification."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-kim-jong-un-scariest-dictators-2016-1">North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un is 34 -here's how he became one of the world's scariest dictators</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/nyjbDyJ4-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

North Korea's massive art troupe and orchestra could help show unity with South Korea at the Winter Olympics - or it could be a propaganda gambit

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d382c7a8813a21dea3a8226-1366/japan south korea shinzo abe moon jae in.jpg" border="0" alt="japan south korea shinzo abe moon jae in" data-mce-source="Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Jae C. Hong/AP" data-mce-caption="A composite image of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in May 2019, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in Gangneung in February 2018." /><p class="source"><span>Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Jae C. Hong/AP</span></p><p class="caption">A composite image of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in May 2019, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in Gangneung in February 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Japan officially downgraded South Korea from its whitelist of preferred trading partners on Wednesday.</strong></li><li><strong>This means that Japanese exporters of technology-related goods now have to go through extra screening for each contract.</strong></li><li><strong>South Korea's deputy national security adviser accused Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of treating South Korea like a "hostile nation."</strong></li><li><strong>Both countries have repeatedly blamed each other to justify their actions in their trade war.</strong></li><li><strong>The current tensions started last year when South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Japanese companies to repay World War II era debts to Korean forced laborers. </strong><strong>Japan insists it already paid them off in a 1965 treaty.</strong></li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></strong></li></ul><p>Japan has officially downgraded South Korea from its whitelist of preferred trading partners, prompting Seoul to accuse Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe of treating it as a "hostile nation."</p><p>Tokyo's downgrading of the two countries' trade ties took effect on Wednesday. South Korea has now been <a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2019/0802_001.html">relegated from Group A</a> - the "preferred trade partner list" - to Group B, which consists of countries and regions that are part of international export control agreements.</p><p>This means that Japanese exporters of technology-related goods now have to go through extra screening for each contract, particularly to make sure that South Korea doesn't use those goods for its military or weapons industry.</p><p>Kim Hyun-chong, South Korea's deputy national security adviser, said the government "strongly regrets" the downgrade in a Wednesday statement, reported by <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190828008200315?section=national/diplomacy">Yonhap news agency</a>.</p><p>Kim also accused Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of treating South Korea like a "hostile nation," according to Yonhap, in reference to Abe previously saying that South Korea had jeopardized national security in their feud.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d6660592e22af0658666b26-1200/screen shot 2019-08-28 at 120450 2.png" border="0" alt="south korea kim hyun-chong" data-mce-source="AP Archive/YouTube" data-mce-caption="Then-South Korean trade minister Kim Hyun-chong at a press conference in Seoul in March 2018." /><p class="source"><span>AP Archive/YouTube</span></p><p class="caption">Then-South Korean trade minister (now deputy national security adviser) Kim Hyun-chong at a press conference in Seoul in March 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Both sides have continually blamed each other to justify their actions.</p><p>South Korea has accused Japan of weaponizing trade to hit back at a Supreme Court decision ordering Japanese companies to repay World War II debts to Korean forced laborers.</p><p>Japan maintains that it already did so in a 1965 pact with South Korea, and has refused to recognize the court ruling.</p><p>Yoshihide Suga, a spokesman for the Japanese government, on Wednesday described South Korea's actions in the trade war as "negative and irrational," <a href="https://www.apnews.com/5205ba16ed964bf6a36f8977f52eae49">according to the Associated Press</a>.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d440f74100a241f74479642-1200/japan shinzo abe cabinet.jpg" border="0" alt="japan shinzo abe cabinet" data-mce-source="Kyodo via Reuters" data-mce-caption="Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (middle) with Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii (left) and Finance Minister Taro Aso (right) at a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on August 2, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>Kyodo via Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Abe (middle) with Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii (left) and Finance Minister Taro Aso (right) at a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on August 2, 2019.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Last week South Korea pulled out of a three-year intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, citing a "trust issue" Japan had created in the two countries' bilateral security relations, <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190822012500325?section=national/diplomacy">according to Yonhap</a>.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-ends-intelligence-sharing-japan-trade-war-2019-8">South Korea ramps up trade war with Japan by ending intelligence-sharing pact, potentially stripping it of vital information about North Korea</a></em></p><p>That agreement is due to expire in late November, though the deadline to announce a withdrawal was last Saturday. Kim, however, said on Wednesday that South Korea would reconsider the decision if Japan reverses its removal of South Korea from its trade whitelist.</p><p>"The ball has been passed into Japan's court," Kim said Wednesday, according to Yonhap. "[We] expect Japan to hold hands we have extended."</p><p>South Korean President Moon Jae-in has even referenced his country's painful history under Japanese colonization from 1910 to 1945, saying last month: "We will never again lose to Japan."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59b0087579bbfd1d008b874f-2400/ap853890370207.jpg" border="0" alt="Moon Jae-in" data-mce-source="Ahn Young-joon/AP" data-mce-caption="Moon Jae-in, a lawmaker of the Democratic United Party, speaks after he was elected to the presidential candidate at his party convention in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. Moon Sunday was formally chosen as the main opposition party's presidential candidate." /><p class="source"><span>Ahn Young-joon/AP</span></p><p class="caption">Moon in Goyang, South Korea, on in September 2012 before becoming president.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Japan announced its decision to downgrade South Korea on August 2, which South Korea called <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-south-korea-trade-war-whitelist-preferential-partners-wwii-tensions-2019-8">"selfish" and "destructive."</a></p><p>There are now 26 countries on Japan's whitelist, which include the US, UK, and Germany.</p><p>The South Korean government also removed Japan from its trading whitelist in retaliation, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-japan-trade-war-new-trade-category-2019-8">created an entirely new, downgraded category of country</a> to punish it.</p><p>Under this classification, Japan will still be able to trade with South Korea but will be subject to lengthier export application processes. This takes effect next month.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53bb047869bedd5c4d8b4567-1194/samsung-gumi-factory-worker-testing-galaxy-s5-1.jpg" border="0" alt="samsung gumi factory worker testing galaxy s5" data-mce-source="Samsung" /><p class="source"><span>Samsung</span></p><p class="caption">Inside Samsung's factory in Gumi, South Korea. Japan has restricted exports of key materials that would hamper South Korea's electronics industry.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Japan on July 4 had already placed export curbs on <a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2019/0701_001.html">fluorinated polyimide, photoresists, and hydrogen fluoride</a>. South Korea's massive domestic electronic industry needs those key high-tech materials to make semiconductors and display screens.</p><p>The government in Seoul has promised to invest 5 trillion won ($4.12 billion) to stabilize the supply chains affected by the trade war in the next two years, <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-southkorea-japan-labourers/south-korea-summons-japan-ambassador-as-export-trade-curbs-take-effect-idUKKCN1VI0B0">Reuters reported</a>.</p><p>The US, which has strong trade and security relationships with both South Korea and Japan, have repeatedly called on the two countries to resolve their differences through dialogue.</p><p>Japan and South Korea's foreign ministers met in Beijing - alongside their Chinese counterpart - last week, but failed to come to a resolution. They have, however, promised to keep talking.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-japan-trade-war-gas-stations-decades-long-tensions-2019-7">South Korea and Japan's trade war has gotten so bad that some South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese-made cars</a></em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-two-hurricanes-collide-fujiwhara-effect-2017-9">Here's what happens when two hurricanes collide</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/sT6tjvZc-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

South Korea accuses Japan of treating it like a 'hostile nation' after it was officially downgraded as a trading partner amid escalating tensions

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d5130e9cd97844766050dd2-1200/2019-08-08t022616z1lynxnpef77085rtroptp4g20-summit.jpg" border="0" alt="japan south korea abe moon" data-mce-source="Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters" data-mce-caption="Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-In at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-In at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>South Korea and Japan are in the midst of a trade war that appears to have no end in sight.</strong></li><li><strong>South Korea dramatically escalated tensions on Thursday by announcing that it will end its intelligence-sharing pact with Japan.</strong></li><li><strong>This means that Japan will be locked out of South Korean intelligence on pressing regional issues, like North Korea's missile and nuclear program.</strong></li><li><strong>The US, which has intelligence-sharing deals with both the South Korea and Japan, could also lose out.</strong></li><li><strong>"We're going to lose an important source of information-sharing between our two allies at a very dangerous time," security expert Ankit Panda told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/world/asia/south-korea-japan-intelligence.html">The New York Times</a>.</strong></li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></strong></li></ul><p>South Korea is ending its intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in a dramatic escalation of the two countries' trade war. It is a move that could strip Japan of vital information about North Korea's nuclear program.</p><p>South Korea's National Security Council decided to end the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) after an hour-long meeting on Thursday, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-japan-labourers-idUSKCN1VC0WR">Reuters reported</a>, adding that President Moon Jae-in personally approved the plan.</p><p>The GSOMIA was due to be automatically renewed this Saturday unless one side canceled it, Reuters and South Korea's <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190822011753315?section=national/diplomacy">Yonhap news agency</a> reported.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a7cdb7ad03072920e8b4686-1629/ap18036437853741.jpg" border="0" alt="Moon Jae-in" data-mce-source="Jae C. Hong/AP" data-mce-caption="South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during the opening ceremony of the 132nd IOC session ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018." /><p class="source"><span>Jae C. Hong/AP</span></p><p class="caption">Moon in Gangneung, South Korea, in February 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The South Korean presidency blamed Japan for the termination of the deal, citing a "trust issue" it had created in the two countries' bilateral security relations, <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190822012500325?section=national/diplomacy">Yonhap reported</a>.</p><p>Kim You-geun, the deputy director South Korea's National Security Council, noted in a Thursday statement that Japan had on August 2 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-south-korea-trade-war-whitelist-preferential-partners-wwii-tensions-2019-8">dropped South Korea from its list</a> of favored trading partners "without providing clear ground."</p><p>This, he said, led to a "grave change in security cooperation circumstances between the two nations," <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190822011753315?section=national/diplomacy">Yonhap reported</a>.</p><p>South Korea also dropped Japan from its export whitelist ten days after Tokyo's decision, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-japan-trade-war-new-trade-category-2019-8">created an entirely new country category</a> to punish Japan economically.</p><p>Those moves mean that Japanese and South Korean exporters of "strategic" goods will now have to go through additional screening to sell abroad.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-japan-trade-war-new-trade-category-2019-8">South Korea created a new category of country specifically to punish Japan in their escalating trade war</a></em></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d5139a3cd978414477762a7-1200/japan south korea trade war containers.jpg" border="0" alt="japan south korea trade war containers.JPG" data-mce-source="Kim Hong-ji/Reuters" data-mce-caption="A truck drives between shipping containers at a container terminal at Incheon port, South Korea, in May 2016." /><p class="source"><span>Kim Hong-ji/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">A truck drives between shipping containers at a container terminal at Incheon port, South Korea, in May 2016.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The decision to terminate the GSOMIA came shortly after Japan and South Korea's foreign ministers met in Beijing on Wednesday and Thursday, but failed to achieve a breakthrough, Yonhap and Reuters reported.</p><p>They have, however, promised to continue talking.</p><p>"Although ties between Japan and South Korea are in a very tough situation, we believe we should cooperate with South Korea where cooperation is necessary," Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday, shortly before Seoul's announcement to end GSOMIA, Reuters reported.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59e71f4490992439008b48f5-1279/shinzo abe japan.jpg" border="0" alt="shinzo abe japan" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Toru Hanai" data-mce-caption="Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader, attends an election campaign rally in Fukushima, Japan, October 10, 2017." /><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Toru Hanai</span></p><p class="caption">Abe in Fukushima, Japan, in October 2017.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Japan and South Korea have had tense relations since at least 1910, when Japan colonized South Korea and ruled it with an iron fist until 1945.</p><p>Tensions bubbled to the surface late last year when the South Korean <span>Supreme Court ordered Japanese companies to compensate Korean laborers who were forced to work for them during World War II. </span></p><p><span>The Japanese government maintains it settled all colonial-era debts in a 1965 pact, and many Japanese companies refused to comply with the court's order.</span></p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-japan-trade-war-gas-stations-decades-long-tensions-2019-7">South Korea and Japan's trade war has gotten so bad that some South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese-made cars</a></em></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d5eaa979563f4214d4e2ed3-2000/south korea japan china meeting.jpg" border="0" alt="south korea japan china meeting" data-mce-source="How Hwee Young/Pool via Reuters" data-mce-caption="Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (center) at a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (left), South Korean Foreign Minister (second-left), and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (second-right) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on August 22, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>How Hwee Young/Pool via Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (center) at a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (left), South Korean Foreign Minister (second-left), and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (second-right) in Beijing, China, on Thursday. Japan and South Korea failed to make headway in this meeting.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>Why ending the intelligence pact is a big deal</h2><p>GSOMIA went into effect in November 2016, and was apparently created out of the US's strong encouragement, Yonhap and <a href="https://apnews.com/b6f4856f55294c68a4f8228a45ddf362">the Associated Press</a> (AP) reported. </p><p>The intelligence pact sped up information exchange between the two countries, which previously only exchanged information via the US, the AP reported. The US has separate security pacts with both Japan and South Korea, which officials say won't be affected, according to Yonhap.</p><p>All three countries have an interest in maintaining security cooperation as China continues to expand its military and naval power in the region, and North Korea's nuclear program continues to be a threat. </p><p>North Korea has long used missile tests to make threats against South Korea, with many of the projectiles landing in the Sea of Japan.</p><p>Kim Jong Un's regime completed <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/north-korea-kims-great-satisfaction-over-sixth-missile-test-in-three-weeks-11787225">six missile tests</a> within the space of a month this summer to protest against the US and South Korea's joint military drills.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d3979d048c50a47bd415f02-1200/north korea july 25 missile tests.jpg" border="0" alt="north korea july 25 missile tests" data-mce-source="Ahn Young-joon/AP" data-mce-caption="Images of North Korea's missile launch shown on TV at the Seoul Railway Station in South Korea on July 25, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>Ahn Young-joon/AP</span></p><p class="caption">Images of North Korea's missile launch shown on TV at the Seoul Railway Station in South Korea on July 25, 2019.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The US has repeatedly urged its two Asian partners to resolve their differences.</p><p>Lt. Col. Dave Eastburn, a spokesman for the US Department of <keyword id="6354810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="defense">Defense</keyword>, said <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190822012700325?section=national/diplomacy">according to Yonhap</a> and Reuters: "We encourage Japan and Korea to work together to resolve their differences. I hope they can do this quickly."</p><p>"We are all stronger - and Northeast Asia is safer - when the United States, Japan and Korea work together in solidarity and friendship," he added. "Intel-sharing is key to developing our common defense policy and strategy."</p><p>The US has a total of 80,000 troops in South Korea and Japan combined, according to the AP.</p><p>Ankit Panda, a security expert and adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/world/asia/south-korea-japan-intelligence.html">told The New York Times</a>: "We're going to lose an important source of information-sharing between our two allies at a very dangerous time."</p><p>"I think the two countries can be fairly described as adversaries now," he added. "In Seoul, the idea is if we can do something that will hurt Japan more than it will hurt us, then it's worth doing."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/violent-video-games-ban-mass-shooting-shootings-2018-3">Violent video games are played all over the world, but mass shootings are a uniquely American problem</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/8bYYhdPX-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

South Korea ramps up trade war with Japan by ending intelligence-sharing pact, potentially stripping it of vital information about North Korea

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d3829e38d6642231479f217-1200/japan gas station.jpg" border="0" alt="japan gas station" data-mce-source="Toru Hanai/Reuters" data-mce-caption="A gas station attendant fills cans at a Shell petrol station in Suzuka, Japan, in October 2017." /><p class="source"><span>Toru Hanai/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">A gas station attendant fills cans at a Shell petrol station in Suzuka, Japan, in October 2017.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>There's a massive trade war brewing between South Korea and Japan, which is the culmination of decades of mistrust and political tensions.</strong></li><li><strong>It was triggered on July 1, when Tokyo placed export restrictions on three key materials that South Korea needs to make semiconductors and display screens.</strong></li><li><strong>Many South Koreans have threatened to boycott Japanese beer and films. Some gas station owners are even refusing to refuel Japanese cars.</strong></li><li><strong>Seoul plans to report Japan to the World Trade Organization.</strong></li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></strong></li></ul><p>South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese cars in the latest escalation of the two countries' new trade war, which comes after decades of political and economic tensions.</p><p>Those tensions exploded to the surface on July 1, when <a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2019/0701_001.html">Japan placed export restrictions</a> on three key high-tech materials - fluorinated polyimide, photoresists, and hydrogen fluoride - on which South Korea relies to make semiconductors and display screens for its booming electronics industry.</p><p>Tokyo also plans to remove Seoul from a whitelist of nations that face minimum trade restrictions.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d38263ca13c951665333cbc-1500/the-wall-modular-microled-146-inch-tv-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Samsung " data-mce-source="Samsung" /><p class="source"><span>Samsung</span></p><p class="caption">One of Samsung's new products is a 219-inch TV called "The Wall," which uses display technology known as microLED. Production of this TV could be affected by Japan and South Korea's trade dispute.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Sung Yoon-mo, South Korea's industry minister, told reporters on Tuesday <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-japan-laborers/south-korea-protests-japans-grave-plan-to-drop-it-from-smooth-trade-list-idUKKCN1UJ04F">according to Reuters</a>: "It is a very grave matter that shakes the foundation of South Korea-Japan economic partnership and Northeast Asian security cooperation that has been maintained and developed for more than 60 years."</p><p>"Removal of South Korea from the white list of countries is against international norms and we are worried about its serious negative impact on global value chains and free trade," he added.</p><p>Similarly Yoshihide Suga, Japan's top government spokesman, said on Tuesday: "Japan-South Korea relations are now in a very severe state," <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-russia-japan-govt/japan-south-korea-relations-in-very-severe-state-japans-suga-idUSKCN1UJ095">as cited by Reuters</a>.</p><p>South Korean President Moon Jae-in earlier this month called the new trade restrictions an "unprecedented emergency," and accused Tokyo of imposing them for political gain.</p><p>He also warned dozens of executives from companies including Samsung, Hyundai, and Lotte that this trade war could last for a long time, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-10/moon-warns-korea-inc-to-prepare-for-prolonged-fight-with-japan">Bloomberg reported</a>.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d382c7a8813a21dea3a8226-1366/japan south korea shinzo abe moon jae in.jpg" border="0" alt="japan south korea shinzo abe moon jae in" data-mce-source="Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Jae C. Hong/AP" data-mce-caption="A composite image of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in May 2019, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in Gangneung in February 2018." /><p class="source"><span>Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Jae C. Hong/AP</span></p><p class="caption">A composite image of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in May 2019, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in Gangneung in February 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Japanese and South Korean officials met for five hours on July 12 in an effort to ease tensions, but failed to achieve a breakthrough, <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/business/south-korea-report-japans-tightening-exports-wto/#.XTgWI5NKhjc">The Japan Times reported</a>.</p><p>US President Donald Trump offered to help end the impasse last Friday, Reuters reported, but no US intervention is yet to occur.</p><p>Seoul now plans to report Tokyo to the World Trade Organization at meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, and says it is considering suing Japan over alleged unfair trading practices, The Japan Times said.</p><p>Tokyo denies those allegations and says any wrongdoing is Seoul's.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d382c0648c50a1afb3d3b5b-1200/japan south korea trade wto.jpg" border="0" alt="japan south korea trade wto" data-mce-source="Denis Balibouse/Reuters" data-mce-caption="South Korean and Japanese delegates at the World Trade Organisation General Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 24, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>Denis Balibouse/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">South Korean and Japanese delegates at the World Trade Organisation General Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 24, 2019.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>Car owners, beer drinkers, and anime fans affected</h2><p>Many South Koreans have since vowed to boycott Japanese products, and called on gas station operators to stop refueling Japanese cars, <a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2019/07/419_272758.html">The Korea Times reported</a>. Some of them have complied, with one owner telling the newspaper that whenever he saw a Japanese car he saw "a Japanese flag."</p><p>Some auto service centers have also formed alliances to refuse serving Japanese autos, the newspaper said.</p><p>Observers say, however, that these boycotts are just harming Koreans rather than the Japanese government.</p><p>"The victim of the gas stations refusing to fill up Japanese cars isn't the Japanese government but the car owners," The Korea Times quoted South Korean online news outlet E Today as saying.</p><p>"If people don't use gas stations, the victim is not the Japanese government but the gas station owners," it added.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56baf72d6e97c662008b6386-2400/rtx12bl3.jpg" border="0" alt="asahi japan" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Issei Kato" data-mce-caption="A woman clad in a yukata, or a casual summer kimono, pulls Asahi Breweries' Super Dry beer into her mug at a beer garden at the rooftop of Nihonbashi-Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo July 30, 2013. " /><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Issei Kato</span></p><p class="caption">A woman clad in a yukata, or a casual summer kimono, pulls Asahi Breweries' Super Dry beer in Tokyo in July 2013.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>South Koreans have also overwhelmingly bought less Japanese beer, booked fewer trips to Japan, and even refused to watch Japanese movies.</p><p>According to Emart, South Korea's biggest retailer, sales of Japanese beer between July 1 and July 18 were 30% lower year on year, South Korea's <a href="http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/902861.html">Hankyoreh newspaper reported</a>.</p><p>"Butt Detective: The Movie," a Japanese anime film based on a series popular in South Korea, also suffered at the box office after its July 11 release, The Hankyoreh reported.</p><p>The movie also received multiple negative reviews, many of which said that Koreans shouldn't watch Japanese films, The Hankyoreh noted.</p><p>Last week a 78-year-old South Korean man <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/south-korean-man-dies-immolation-japan-dispute-worsens-190719074156575.html">died of self-immolation</a> outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Police said he set fire to himself because of "his hostility against Japan," <a href="https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/s-korean-man-kills-himself-dispute-japan-escalates-doc-1ix0r86">according to Agence France-Presse</a>.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d38259e48c50a1a9f1c4573-1200/butt detective japan anime.png" border="0" alt="butt detective japan anime" data-mce-source="Toei Animation/YouTube" data-mce-caption="Japanese anime film &amp;quotButt Detective: The Movie&quot; suffered at the South Korean box office amid the two countries' trade dispute. The film is about a detective whose head is shaped like a butt." /><p class="source"><span>Toei Animation/YouTube</span></p><p class="caption">Japanese anime film "Butt Detective: The Movie" suffered at the South Korean box office amid the two countries' trade dispute. The film is about a detective whose head is shaped like a butt.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>100-year-long tensions bubbling under the surface</h2><p>The two countries have had an uneasy relationship since 1910, when Japan <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-history-in-photos-2018-8">forcefully colonized the Korean Peninsula</a> - which at the same was still unified - and ruled it with an iron fist.</p><p>During World War II, Japan - which was still controlling Korea - forced millions of Koreans to become laborers to support Japan's military ambitions, and conscripted tens of thousands as soldiers.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/534aaaa9eab8ea09470b10d5-2400/south-korean-comfort-women-memorial.jpg" border="0" alt="south korean comfort women memorial" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji" data-mce-caption="Participants carry the portraits of Korean women who were made sex slaves by the Japanese military during World War II, during a requiem ceremony for former comfort woman Lee Yong-nyeo (centre portrait) in central Seoul." /><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji</span></p><p class="caption">Participants carry the portraits of Korean "comfort women" in Seoul.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Though Tokyo and Seoul normalized diplomatic relations in 1965, their relationship remained uneasy.</p><p>Last year, after a South Korean court ordered Japanese firms to compensate Koreans who were forced into wartime labor, many Japanese firms - including Mitsubishi Heavy - refused to comply, viewing it as an erosion of trust between the two countries' relations.</p><p>The Japanese government says the 1965 treaty settled all colonial-era debts, while many people in South Korea argue they had no choice but to accept it at the time, Pomona College Professor Tom Le <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/23/why-japan-south-korea-disputes-world-war-ii-keep-resurfacing/">wrote in The Washington Post</a> this week.</p>     <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-richest-person-net-worth-billions-2018-12">Jeff Bezos is worth over $160 billion - here's how the world's richest man makes and spends his money</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/p1XfM0qb-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

South Korea and Japan are having their own trade war, and it's gotten so bad that some South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese-made cars

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d382c7a8813a21dea3a8226-1366/japan south korea shinzo abe moon jae in.jpg" border="0" alt="japan south korea shinzo abe moon jae in" data-mce-source="Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Jae C. Hong/AP" data-mce-caption="A composite image of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in May 2019, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in Gangneung in February 2018." /><p class="source"><span>Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Jae C. Hong/AP</span></p><p class="caption">A composite image of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in May 2019, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in Gangneung in February 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>South Korea and Japan have been mired in their own trade war since early July.</strong></li><li><strong>It dramatically escalated on Friday after Japan said it would remove South Korea from its whitelist of favored economic partners.</strong></li><li><strong>This means Japanese exporters will have to go through additional screening to make sure their goods don't benefit South Korea's military or weapons industry.</strong></li><li><strong>Hours later, South Korea retaliated by removing Japan from its whitelist of preferred trading partners as well.</strong></li><li><strong>The latest trade barbs reignite decades of tensions between the two countries. Japan colonized South Korea in 1910 and ruled it with an iron fist until the end of World War II.</strong></li><li><strong><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</strong></strong></li></ul><p>South Korea and Japan's trade war just got a lot worse after the two countries dropped each other from their list of trusted economic partners, further reigniting their decades-long political and economic tensions.</p><p>The Japanese government on Friday <a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2019/0802_001.html">announced</a> its decision to remove South Korea from its so-called "whitelist" of favored trading partners.</p><p>This means that Japanese exporters of "strategic" goods will need to obtain more permits and go through additional screening to make sure their products are not being used by South Korea's military or weapons industry, <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-southkorea-japan-laborers/south-korea-says-wont-be-defeated-again-as-japan-trade-row-escalates-idUKKCN1US03M">Reuters reported</a>. These new restrictions will go into effect on August 28.</p><p>Hiroshige Seko, Japan's trade minister, stressed on Friday that this "<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/japan-approves-removal-of-south-korea-from-preferred-trade-status-2019-08-01">is not an export ban</a>."</p><p>This is the first time Japan has removed any country from its whitelist, which currently includes Western countries including the UK, US, and Germany, Reuters reported.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d440f74100a241f74479642-1200/japan shinzo abe cabinet.jpg" border="0" alt="japan shinzo abe cabinet" data-mce-source="Kyodo via Reuters" data-mce-caption="Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (middle) with Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii (left) and Finance Minister Taro Aso (right) at a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on August 2, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>Kyodo via Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Abe (middle) with Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii (left) and Finance Minister Taro Aso (right) at a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Friday.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Hours later, South Korea retaliated by also announcing plans to remove Japan from its own whitelist of 29 preferred trading partners, <a href="https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1157192827165540352">Agence France-Presse</a>, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/a3834892da324b72b07d00202ab250f4">The Associated Press</a> (AP), and Reuters reported.</p><p>South Korean officials didn't specify what this means, but said it will provide more details next week, the AP said.</p><p>South Korea will also speed up its efforts to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization over Japan's export controls, finance minster Hong Nam-ki said, according to Reuters.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d440ff7100a2418555d3825-1200/south korea moon jae in cabinet.jpg" border="0" alt="south korea moon jae in cabinet" data-mce-source="Bae Jae-man/Yonhap via AP" data-mce-caption="South Korean President Moon Jae-in at an emergency cabinet meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on August 2, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>Bae Jae-man/Yonhap via AP</span></p><p class="caption">Moon at an emergency cabinet meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul to discuss Japanese trade tensions on Friday.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Japan on July 1 had already placed export curbs on <a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2019/0701_001.html">fluorinated polyimide, photoresists, and hydrogen fluoride</a> - three key high-tech materials that South Korea's massive domestic electronic industry needs to make semiconductors and display screens.</p><p>That move has further hammered the global supply chain for tech goods, which already faces uncertainty due to the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/us-china-trade-war">ongoing trade war between the US and China.</a></p><p>President Moon Jae-in <a href="http://www.korea.net/Government/Briefing-Room/Presidential-Speeches/view?articleId=173815&amp;pageIndex=1">told an emergency cabinet meeting on Friday</a>: "The step taken by Japan today is something that impairs the longstanding economic cooperation and friendly partnership between our two countries, posing a grave challenge to the bilateral relationship."</p><p>"Moreover, it is a selfish, destructive act that will cripple the global supply chain and wreak havoc on the global economy," he added. "It is sure to draw condemnation from the international community."</p><p>Moon added that his government would "provide assistance in every way possible to minimize damage to businesses" in light of the Japanese export curbs.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-japan-trade-war-gas-stations-decades-long-tensions-2019-7">South Korea and Japan are having their own trade war, and it's gotten so bad that some South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese-made cars</a></em></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/552e227deab8ea1475a7b514-1200/samsung-gumi-factory-worker-with-galaxy-s5-8.jpg" border="0" alt="samsung gumi factory worker with galaxy s5" data-mce-source="Samsung" data-mce-caption="A Samsung factory worker handles one of their Galaxy smartphones." /><p class="source"><span>Samsung</span></p><p class="caption">A Samsung factory worker handles one of their Galaxy smartphones.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>Unraveling decades of mistrust</h2><p>The latest developments come after weeks of economic uncertainty and finger-pointing between the two countries, reigniting decades of moldering political tensions.</p><p>Earlier on Friday, Trade Minister Seko said Japan's cabinet had decided to remove South Korea from its whitelist on national security grounds, and blamed Seoul for eroding trust between the two countries.</p><p>"We want South Korea to first create an environment in which we can have dialogue with trust," Seko said, according to Reuters. "It's South Korea's responsibility to do that."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d440e1c100a241f53731d02-1200/south korea japan foreign ministers.jpg" border="0" alt="south korea japan foreign ministers" data-mce-source="Kyodo via Reuters" data-mce-caption="South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Japanese counterpart Taro Kono at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 1, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>Kyodo via Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Japanese counterpart Taro Kono at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Late last year South Korea's Supreme Court <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/11/06/Japan-to-bring-South-Korean-court-ruling-on-forced-labor-to-international-court/7631541482073/?ur3=1">angered Tokyo</a> by ordering Japanese companies to repay Koreans who were forced to work for them during World War II. Many Japanese companies, such as <span>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, </span><a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/business/plaintiffs-wartime-labor-case-seek-sale-mitsubishi-heavy-assets-south-korea/#.XTiEQ5NKhjQ">refused to comply</a>. </p><p>Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula - which at the time was still unified - in 1910, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-history-in-photos-2018-8">ruled it with an iron fist</a> until the end of World War II.</p><p>The two countries normalized diplomatic relations in a 1965 pact that saw Tokyo give Seoul grants worth $300 million and loans of $200 million over ten years.</p><p>The Japanese government maintains that the 1965 treaty had settled all colonial-era debts.</p><p>However, later South Korean governments said that while the pact did cover some wartime debts, it did not include some key recipients, such as forced laborers or "comfort women" - Korean women forced to provide sex for Japanese troops.</p><p>"We will never again lose to Japan," South Korean President Moon Jae-in <a href="http://www.korea.net/Government/Briefing-Room/Presidential-Speeches/view?articleId=173815&amp;pageIndex=1">told his cabinet</a> on Friday in a thinly-veiled remark on Japan's colonization.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d440ab3100a2417e96ec7b6-2400/ap18333088927897.jpg" border="0" alt="south korea japan labor" data-mce-source="Ahn Young-joon/AP" data-mce-caption="Kim Sung-joo, center bottom, a victim of Japan's forced labor, and their family members and supporters raise their hands in celebration after the Supreme Court's ruling ordering Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate them in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. South Korea's top court has ordered a Japanese company to compensate 10 Koreans for forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula." /><p class="source"><span>Ahn Young-joon/AP</span></p><p class="caption">Kim Sung-joo (center bottom), a victim of Japan's forced labor, and family members and supporters celebrate in Seoul in November 2018 after South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Japanese companies to compensate them.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Over the past few weeks people in South Korea have called for a boycott on Japanese goods to retaliate against the trade war. Japanese films and beer sales in South Korea have already suffered.</p><p>A 72-year-old South Korean man set himself ablaze in central Seoul on Thursday, becoming the second person in the country in two weeks to use self-immolation to protest the two counties' soured relations.</p><p>Police found in the 72-year-old man's bag a leaflet criticizing Tokyo's July 1 decision to tighten exports on hi-tech materials, <a href="https://apnews.com/ac2b9e6b69d545f7a93077456908bdf5">the AP reported</a>.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d44104d100a241f803fcc04-1200/south korea japan us trump moon abe.jpg" border="0" alt="south korea japan us trump moon abe.JPG" data-mce-source="Carlos Barria/Reuters" data-mce-caption="From left to right: South Korean President Moon Jae-in, US President Donald Trump, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 6, 2017." /><p class="source"><span>Carlos Barria/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">From left to right: Moon, US President Donald Trump, and Abe at a G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 6, 2017.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>On Thursday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped Japan and South Korea - both key US allies - would "find a way to move forward together."</p><p>Top US, Japanese, and South Korean diplomats met on Friday to discuss whether the US could mediate between the two countries.</p><p>Experts previously noted that Washington could help break the deadlock as both Japan and South Korea have good diplomatic relations with the US.</p>     <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-report-trump-takeaways-from-redacted-version-russia-investigation-2019-4">7 takeaways from former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, ahead of his congressional hearings</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/FoNPyinM-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

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