Japan says summit with SKorea ‘not set’

TOKYO: Tokyo on Tuesday said a long-awaited leadership summit with Seoul had yet to be set, as local media reported that behind-the-scenes bickering over Japan’s wartime sex slavery was a key sticking point.

On Monday, a spokeswoman for the South Korean presidential Blue House said Seoul had proposed a summit between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Park Geun-Hye on the sidelines of a trilateral leadership meeting being held with China in Seoul next week.