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5 most romantic getaways in the United states.

Whether planning a weekend trip or a longer vacation, consider these romantic getaways

in the United states as top destinations.

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Kauai, HI.

If your version of paradise includes rugged cliffs, and sunny sand, emerald hills and

epic hikes, fire up your laptop and book a trip to Kauai.

The "Garden Isle", is a verdant wonderland, where you can take a helicopter ride past

the Jurassic Park waterfall, kayak Hawaii's only navigable river, or walk the wild Na

Pali Coast—though, no one will blame you for kicking back with a cocktail on the beach.

Aspen, CO.

There's no wrong time to book a trip to this Rocky Mountain town, where romantic enticements

beckon, from luxury hotels and sophisticated dining, to hot air ballooning, and hitting

the slopes.

Whether you carve with your partner, take on some rapids, or just settle into a couple's

massage, and the nightly Champagne sabering at the extravagant St. Regis, you'll leave

Aspen more in love than ever.

Martha's Vineyard, MA.

The Obamas go-to summer getaway, has always charmed visitors with its windswept beaches,

and sweet towns.

Rent a home or base yourself at Hob Knob in Edgartown, where you can borrow bikes, or

charter a sunset cruise aboard the hotel's 27-foot boat.

Hit the beach, browse local shops, marvel over the sunset, and stuff yourself with fresh

seafood.

It's not a Vineyard visit without lobster from Larsen's Fish Market.

Charleston, SC.

This picturesque Southern city, doesn't just feel like a movie set; Nicholas Sparks'

The Notebook, was actually filmed around Charleston.

Turn it into the background of your own love story, as you roam the historic district,

explore the vibrant dining scene, and wander through the gardens at the Boone Hall Plantation.

Big Sur, CA.

With rolling redwood forests, and cliffs jutting over turquoise water, this stretch of California

coast, is idyllic in the extreme.

Splurge at the Post Ranch Inn, where your luxury bungalow is TV, and telephone-free,

or snuggle up inside a yurt at Treebones.

Come during the summer when you can kayak with sea otters, take a moonlit tour of the

Point Sur lighthouse, or stay up late for a dip in the Esalen Hot Springs.

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WHY U.S MADE AEGIS ASHORE MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS CAN HELP JAPAN? - Duration: 7:53.

Japan is set to expand its ballistic missile defense capabilities with Japanese Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approving the procurement of two land-based Aegis Ashore missile defense

systems on December 19.

The two Aegis Ashore batteries, the land-based variant of the Aegis combat system, will strengthen

Japanese defenses against China's and North Korea's growing ballistic and cruise missile

arsenals.

The government plans to deploy the two batteries by 2023 but has yet to make a decision on

the locations of the new missile defense systems.

This is in response to North Korea's nuclear and missile development programs that pose

a particular threat to Japan's national security.

Japanese Minister of Defense Itsunori Onodera told reporters in Tokyo , "North Korea's

nuclear missile development poses a new level of threat to Japan and as we have done in

the past we will ensure that we are able to defend ourselves with a drastic improvement

in ballistic missile defense".

The cost for the 2 Aegis Ashore missile defense systems could exceed $2 billion.

Onodera added: "We cannot say what the final costs will be, but we will move ahead to introduce

Aegis Ashore on the fastest possible schedule, given public calls that the government should

deal as swiftly and urgently as possible with the ballistic missile defense issue".

In this video, Defense Updates analyses WHY U.S MADE AEGIS ASHORE MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS

CAN HELP JAPAN DEFEND AGAINST NORTH KOREAN MISSILES?

This year has been an extraordinary year for North Korea.

It finally achieved regime's dream going back decades: establishing direct nuclear

deterrence with the United States, it already had missile capable of targeting Japan.

Despite sanctions, North Korea pushed on and became the first rogue state to acquire a

functional nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile as well as a powerful nuke.

Japan is a pacifist country - at least according to its constitution.

Article 9, introduced under the occupying forces after the Second World War, seems unequivocal:

"The Japanese people forever renounce war and the threat or use of force."

But new laws introduced by conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will allow a broader interpretation

of what the constitution does, and does not, permit - so-called " proactive pacifism".

Japan's stance is slowing changing to meet keeping in view the ever increasing threats

from North Korea and up-to some extent from China.

The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System is a United States Department of Defense (DoD),

Missile Defense Agency program developed to provide missile defense against short to intermediate-range

ballistic missiles.

Aegis BMD is designed to intercept ballistic missiles post-boost phase and prior to reentry.

It enables Aegis equipped vessels like Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers to shoot down enemy

ballistic missiles by expanding the Aegis Combat System with the addition of the AN/SPY-1

radar and Standard missile technologies.

Aegis Ashore, is the land variant of the system.

Basic concept and technology remains same,it is only that it deployed as missile defense

site, instead of being deployed in surface vessels.

The first site to be declared operational was in Romania in 2016.

The Japanese government concluded in an in-depth study earlier this year that the Aegis Ashore

system is more cost effective for missile defense than THAAD.

The heart of the AEGIS systems is an automatic detect and track, multifunctional phased-array

radar, the AN/SPY-1.

This high-powered 4 MW radar is able to perform search, track and missile guidance functions

simultaneously with a capability of over 100 targets.

A conventional, mechanically rotating radar "sees" a target when the radar beam strikes

that target once during each 360-degree rotation of the antenna.

A separate tracking radar is then required to engage each target.

By contrast, the computer-controlled AN/SPY-1A Phased Array Radar of the AEGIS system brings

these functions together within one system.

The phased array can concentrate energy where it is needed.

The operator can boost the range and resolution in a particular direction without blinding

the ship to threats from another side.

The 4 fixed arrays of "SPY" send out beams of electromagnetic energy in all directions

simultaneously, continuously providing a search and tracking capability for hundreds of target

at the same time.

This radar is expected to track enemy aircrafts from as far as 300 km.

The Aegis Ashore batteries will be armed with SM-6 interceptors and SM-3 Block IIA interceptors.

Manufactured by U.S. defense contractor Raytheon, SM-6 is a supersonic Mach 3.5+ missile interceptor

with an estimated range of over 180 miles or 289 kilometers.

The SM-3 Block IIA has been under joint development by Raytheon and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

since 2006.

It is designed to destroy short-to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.

SM-3 Block IIA interceptors have extended range of 2,500 km or 1,350 miles.

The Aegis Ashore sites would supplement Patriot batteries capable of engaging short- and medium-range

ballistic missiles in their terminal phase and Aegis-equipped guided-missile destroyers,

of which the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) currently operates four, a number

that is expected to increase to eight in the future.

If the system operated as promised, sensors would track incoming missiles throughout their

launch and flight and would be able to take them out in the sky with the interceptor missile.

The concept is similar to hitting a bullet with another bullet and is very complicated.

Test results outcomes have been mixed, with some success.

In order for either SM-6 interceptors and SM-3 Block IIA missile to intercept a North

Korean ballistic missile, the Aegis combat system would have to start tracking the missile

in its ascent phase and launch interceptors before it overflies the Aegis ashore site.

This all depends on the early detection of the missile.

Early detection also enables multiple shots for each incoming missile , that increases

the probability of successful intercept.

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Happy NUKE Year! North Korea and United States doomed for NUCLEAR showdown in 2018 - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 4:33.

Happy NUKE Year! North Korea and US doomed for NUCLEAR showdown in 2018

NORTH Korea and the US are heading for a nuclear showdown in 2018 as the two sides sit on the

brink of "hot conflict", it has been warned.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are on a path of "spiralling escalation" after a year

of intense rhetoric and military muscle flexing.

North Korea has tested dozens of a missiles and their most powerful nuclear bomb ever,

while the US held unprecedented war games flexing its military muscles.

And both sides have threatened to annihilate the other, with the US President warning of

"fire and fury" and promising to "totally destroy" the rogue state at the UN.

Nuclear expert Dr Bruce Blair warned this descent towards war is only going to continue

in 2018.

He told Daily Star Online: "I think we are on a trajectory of spiraling escalation that

is going to lead to a showdown."

Dr Blair, a former nuclear launch officer, added the "odds are increasing we will come

to blows" as he gave a grim evaluation of the New Year.

Co-founder of nuclear disarmament group Global Zero, he said: "The two sides will be brought

closer to the brink of conflict in 2018.

"There are a number of paths to the outbreak of hot conflict, both through intentional

and inadvertent escalation."

North Korea has fired 23 missiles in 2017 as Kim works to perfect his missile technology

to get the US in range.

The rogue state believes nuclear will protect the regime from any attempt by the West to

depose Kim.

Pyongyang's ruling elite fears a situation such as those involving Iraqi dictator Saddam

Hussein or Libyan warlord Muammar Gaddafi where the US spearheaded efforts to remove

them.

Kim's last missile test on November 28 was his most advanced nuclear missile yet, but

questions still remain over the technology's viability for nuclear war.

However, Dr Blair says any conflict between the US and North Korea would inevitably lead

to the use of nukes.

The expert said: "Little outbreaks of hostilities have been escalating and I think they could

escalate much faster than people realise.

"It could lead very quickly to in a large scale nuclear conflict.

"In a conventional conflict, the North Koreans would lose, and they would be put into a position

with having to resort of nuclear weapons.

"That could be the last straw that causes Trump to escalate to the use of nuclear weapons."

Nuclear war could even be triggered by a particularly provocative missile test if the US decide

to intervene, Dr Blair added.

He explained a scenario where the US detects North Korea to be loading a nuclear warhead

into a missile for a live test.

The US President would be briefed, and Trump would be given options to act.

Dr Blair said: "Maybe Trump rides out a missile launch, or maybe he doesn't – and

then we go into emergency consultation and he opts to retaliate."

Despite the course for war being clear, the expert warned "I don't think we have any

answers" – saying "deterrence is all we have", but adding he had "little faith

in it".

He urged the US to try and get North Korea back to the negotiating table, predicting

we would see the rogue state "isolated to the maximum extent possible".

The next phase of North Korea's missile test is believed to be a live nuclear weapon

launched in the Pacific – known as the Juche Bird test.

This would be the ultimate provocation and test of the US's military patience with

Kim.

Dr Blair previously described this test as Trump's "red line" on North Korea when

speaking to Daily Star Online.

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North Korea: Kim Jong-un 'knows if war breaks out' with US 'he will be among FIRST killed' - Duration: 3:51.

North Korea: Kim Jong-un 'knows if war breaks out' with US 'he will be among FIRST killed'

It comes as despite pressure from international sanctions to back down.  Jonathan Wachtel said: Kim Jong-un knows that if war breaks out, he is probably one of the first casualties." Citing despots Muammar Qaddafi and Iraqs Saddam Hussein as examples, Mr Wachtel added that Kim Jong-un's nuclear weapons programme was the North Korean leader "trying to survive".

He went on: "They didn't have nuclear deterrents… both those dictators are dead.

"So having a nuclear deterrent is something Kim Jong-un understands in his calculus, trying to survive."  Speaking about growing tensions in the Korean Peninsula, Mr Wachtel added: "Russia and China really dont want war to happen.

that is why weve seen some coming around in terms of Beijing and Moscow because they dont like to have a super heavily armed atomic power in North Korea. However, East Asia expert Gordon Chang has warned the US should prepare to fight off both Kim Jong-un and North Korea's allies China and Russia, adding that World War 3 is a possibility.

He said: I think you need to have an honest conversation with the American people. .

That honest conversation has to take into account that we could end up in a war not only with North Korea but with its big-power sponsor China, and maybe even Russia.

I'm not saying World War 3 is the end result but it is a possibility because the Chinese have already told us that. The author of Nuclear Showdown said Bejing had already signalled it would take Pyongyangs side in a conflict despite pledging to help defuse the tension with the rogue East Asian nation.

Mr Chang continued: In August, Beijing signalled that if the United States struck North Korea first then it would come in on North Korea's side.

We now actually got to do something because we caught the Chinese red-handed and really there's no more room for giving them more chances. Earlier Kim Jong-un's state media mouthpiece KCNA announced North Korea will continue to enhance its nuclear capabilities next year in a report titled No Force Can Prevail over Independence and Justice".

The chilling report said: "The DPRK, an undeniable new strategic state and nuclear power, declares: Do not expect any change in its policy.

The DPRK, as a responsible nuclear weapons state, will lead the trend of history to the only road of independence and justice, weathering all tempests on this planet.".

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Israel to name train station to honour Donald Trump after historic US Jerusalem decision - Duration: 1:41.

Israel to name train station to honor Donald Trump after historic us Jerusalem decision

The announcement followers President Trump as December sixth decision to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Israeli Minister of Transportation the Israel cat said I

Decided to call the new train station

Which will be established in the Jewish quarter near the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in the name of President Donald Trump

Because of his historical and brave decision to recognize

Jerusalem the eternal capital of the Jewish people as the capital of the State of Israel and his intention to move the American

Embassy to Jerusalem the station will be built inside the walls of the old city

once built trains will be able to drop passengers off close to the Western Wall the holiest site at which Jews can pray a

Mr.

Katz s announcement comes after an overwhelming majority of United Nations member states opposed the United States regarding the disputed status of Jerusalem

Last Thursday in what was seen as a massive blow to the us a total of?

128 of the 193 member UN General Assembly agreed to resolve the holy city dispute through

negotiations in line with relevant

UN resolutions the official UN position is that East Jerusalem is part of the occupied?

Palestinian territory a sore point of contention for Israel in

2008 the UN called for a dual capital solution US ambassador to the UN nikki Haley said that the vote

Disrespected America and President Trump threatened to cut off billions of aid money to those nations who opposed him

Miss Haley later announced that the US will go ahead with moving its embassy to the disputed city regardless of the vote

She said that is what the American people want us

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US: 2 dead, 1 injured in shooting at Southern California law firm | SML TV - Duration: 2:05.

US: 2 dead, 1 injured in shooting at Southern California law firm

A man walked into the Southern California law firm where he worked and shot two men Friday before turning the gun on himself, police said.

Police arrived to find the gunman and one victim dead and learned that the second victim had driven himself to a hospital, Long Beach police Sergeant Brad Johnson said at a news conference.

The injured man was in stable condition.

Police didnt fire any shots, Johnson said.

A SWAT team searched the rest of the building and no other victims were found.

The gunmans motive had not yet been determined, but authorities emphasized it was not a case of an active shooter targeting as many people as possible.

This incident was workplace violence, Johnson said.

Video showed people running from a two-story office building shouting about a shooting inside.

The building in a well-to-do neighborhood in Long Beach is home to three law firms, but police did not reveal the office where the shooting occurred.

The site is about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles in Long Beach, a city of about 460,000 people.

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Russia Warns North Korean Sub Ready To Attack US, Orders Northern Fleet To Sea I USA BREAKING NEWS - Duration: 4:44.

Greetings world we are USA BREAKING NEWS

a fearful Ministry of Defence mod

emergency action bulletin circulating in the Kremlin today says that President Putin has ordered the Northern Fleet to its highest wartime footing after

confirmation was received that a North Korean submarine

believed to be

Nuclear-armed is currently being chased in the Pacific Ocean waters off the western coast on the United States and whose orders to unleash an attack

Upon America were broadcast encoded messages by Pyongyang radio less than 24 hours ago

According to this bulletin at 0 o'clock midnight GMT plus 8:30 local time

pyongyang radio began broadcasting to its members of the remote education university a massive series of mysterious

Random numbers with mod intelligence experts noting that this broadcast coincided with all known, North Korean

submarines currently active in the Pacific Ocean region suddenly undertaking combat evasive actions

within six hours of this North Korean broadcast occurring this bulletin continues the mod

reported that US and Canadian anti-submarine

Warplanes were rapidly converging off the coast of California

With the Pentagon refusing to inform their Federation counterparts as to what was exactly occurring?

within one hour of these US and Canadian and E submarine war planes converging over the Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of California

This bullet and further notes China's People's Liberation Army PLA

ordered an emergency deployment of

150,000 troops to its common border with North Korea and two hours later

Ordered nearly a dozen North Korean ships carrying coal to immediately leave Chinese waters and returning to their port of origin

Critical to note about China's ordering these North Korean coal ships to leave their waters and return home this

Bulletin says is that China was fulfilling its 24th of February threat to cut off all coal

purchases from North Korea that totaled 1.2 billion dollars last year and represents about 1

of North Korea's total export income

immediately following these events this bullet and further notes the North Korean Foreign Ministry then issued a war statement against the

Americans saying we will hold the u.s.. Wholly accountable for the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by it's outrageous actions

With war now seeming to be unavoidable this bullet and Grimley States the greatest mod fears revolve around the new and mysterious

believed to be simple class submarines North Korea has been mass-producing since at least

2014 and that are capable of launching

nuclear-armed ballistic missiles

North Korean War doctrine this bulletin explains involve its inflicting massive casualties

upon its American South Korean and Japanese enemies while at the same time it protects its regime's

political and military leaders in what has become one the largest underground tunnel systems in the world numbering between

6000 to

8000 and that can flood South Korea with over 30,000 North Korean troops within hours of an outbreak in hostilities

with US Defense Secretary

General James mad dog mat is having stated just weeks ago that North Korea would face an effect of an overwhelming military

Response from America and its allies should it use its nuclear

Weapons this bulletin warns not being fully understood by the West is that North Korea is not only

prepared for such an attack it believes that the millions of civilian

Casualties it can inflict will force these Western powers and to defeat as China will never allow these forces to go north of the 38th

parallel

This bulletin concludes by noting the mod grave concern of the two Russian

Servicemen killed just hours ago and Syria by what is believed to be Islamic state terrorists artillery fire, but that if the investigation?

Implicates the u.s.. In any way the Americans will have more to worry about the North Korea alone. We are anonymous

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Nigerian air force says US agrees to sell it $593 million worth of Super Tucano fighter planes - Duration: 1:19.

Nigerian air force says US agrees to sell it $593 million worth of Super Tucano fighter planes

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian air force said on Wednesday the United States had agreed to sell fighter planes to Nigeria, as the West African country continues its eight-year conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram.

The sale of the 12 A29 Super Tucano aircraft, with weapons and services, is worth $593 million.

The US ambassador to Nigeria presented the letters of offer and acceptance, the official agreement to make the sale, to the countrys air force earlier on Wednesday, the air force statement said.

The agreements are expected to be signed and necessary payments made before Feb.

20, the statement said, adding that the US State Department has already approved the sale.

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North Korea's Greatest Wish: How the U.S.–South Korea Alliance Could Die - Duration: 11:04.

North Korea's Greatest Wish: How the U.S.–South Korea Alliance Could Die

With North Korea rapidly expanding its nuclear and missile capabilities, maintaining a robust U.S.–South Korean alliance is vital. Unfortunately, there is a ticking time-bomb that threatens to throw the alliance in a tailspin.

This time-bomb is the upcoming renegotiation of the burden sharing agreement known as the Special Measures Agreement (SMA). The current five-year SMA, negotiated in 2014, will expire in 2018, meaning negotiations will need to begin soon.

Financial matters between allies can always be touchy, and the combination of Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy and Moon Jae-in's Korean nationalism could make this round particularly toxic.

If handled correctly, however, Trump and Moon can revitalize the alliance and put it on a more sustainable footing for years to come.

Under the current SMA, South Korea covers approximately 50 percent of nonpersonnel costs (about $821 million in 2016) and contributes $9 billion towards the relocation of U.S. bases in South Korea.

Negotiations of the 2014 agreement were tense, with anti-American protests and some South Korean lawmakers calling the talks "humiliating." During the process, Seoul's primary concern was a lack of transparency and control over how South Korean contributions were used.

These concerns were addressed in the 2014 SMA by requiring the United States to report to the Republic of Korea (ROK) on how the funds are used.

Nonetheless, they are certain to reappear in the new negotiations, especially with Moon's party now in control.

For the United States, the biggest concern is getting Seoul to contribute more to its own defense. This concern long predated the current U.S. administration, but it will be especially important to President Trump.

As a presidential candidate, Trump went so far as to suggest that if Seoul did not cover "100 percent" of alliance costs the United States should be "prepared to walk," leaving South Koreans to "defend themselves." As president, Trump has made increased alliance contributions a cornerstone of his foreign policy, meaning he is unlikely to back down in SMA talks.

Interestingly, however, the U.S. president might find his South Korean counterpart to be an ideal partner.

While Trump and Moon have widely divergent views on how to deal with the North Korean threat, both agree that South Korea should have more responsibility for its own defense.

Despite widely being thought of as a dove, Moon is calling for a 7 percent increase in defense spending in 2018. He has also pushed the United States to loosen restrictions on South Korea's missile capabilities and is seeking nuclear submarines.

Moon's interest in strengthening South Korea's military capabilities is part of his desire to regain wartime operational control (OPCON) over ROK forces.

The United States first gained OPCON over ROK forces during the Korean War and has made the transfer of wartime OPCON conditional on increased South Korean military capabilities.

President Moon and much of his South Korean left-wing base are Korean nationalists who consider OPCON a pressing sovereignty issue.

It is easy to imagine how the two nationalist presidents could butt heads in the upcoming burden sharing negotiation. President Trump is widely unpopular in South Korea and could easily make undiplomatic comments that could inflame latent ROK anti-Americanism.

President Moon's left-wing allies are already distrustful of the United States and will likely press him to drive a hard bargain. Perceptions of bad faith on either side flamed by public comments or protests in Seoul could easily poison alliance relations.

Park administration kept parts of 'comfort women' agreement secret 0.

The South Korean government said in a report Wednesday that it failed to gather adequately the opinions of former "comfort women", who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II, before reaching a deal with Japan in 2015 meant to address the issue.

Moon said that though the deal was an official promise approved by the leaders of both countries, he as a president of South Korea should make it clear again that the comfort women issue can not be resolved by the 2015 deal.

On the term "irreversible" in the agreement, the task force said South Korea initially used the word to make Japan's apology more "official", but it was later distorted in context when Tokyo used it to describe the "comfort women" issue, in subsequent talks.

The South Korean government will now review the panel's findings and consult again with victims, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told a news conference.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, who is visiting the Middle East, in a statement said, "The deal was reached by the leaders of the two countries who were elected democratically".

Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted an unnamed Japanese government source as saying it had now become hard for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to visit South Korea in time for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in February, in a potential sign of chilling ties.

"The previous administration under former President Park Geun-hye used resolving the comfort women issue as a prerequisite to improving bilateral ties between South Korea and Japan, but its inflexible responses resulted in several burdens", it added.

The countries resolved to refrain from criticising each other over the issue at global forums, and South Korea agreed to "make efforts" to secure the removal of statues honouring the women, including one outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul.

Japan has often expressed its displeasure over civic groups' movement to build "girl statues" embodying comfort women across South Korea and in other countries.

The Park government also lacked communications with the victims and failed to get understanding and agreement from the victims, the review report said, noting that the 2015 deal was reached from the government perspective.

"Thus, unless the issues surrounding "responsibility" is completely resolved, the "comfort women" issue remains fundamentally unresolved even if the victims received the money". Then South Korean government replied that it will make efforts to appropriately resolve that issue.

"It has been confirmed that the 2015 comfort women negotiation between South Korea had serious flaws, both in process and content", Mr Moon said in a statement read out by his spokesman.

Kono, on the other hand, remained resolute, saying: "The Japan-South Korea agreement is an agreement between the two governments and one that has been highly appreciated by worldwide society".

"In addition, action will be taken carefully in consideration of any impact that it could have on the relations between South Korea and Japan".

Behind the scenes, Japan demanded South Korea not use the word "sex slave", and the South Korean side replied that it only used the word "comfort women" in the past, actually accepting Japan's demand, according to the report.

There are now 32 surviving "comfort women" victims in South Korea.