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SEOUL Keith Hernandez Jersey , Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said here on Tuesday that his country and South Korea should strengthen security cooperation to a global level amid some signs of a thaw in relations between Seoul and Tokyo.


Nakatani arrived in Seoul earlier in the day for a three-day travel, the first to South Korea by Japan's defense chief in nearly five years, to sit down one-on-one with his South Korean counterpart Han Min-Koo, according to Seoul's defense ministry. The last such visit was made in January 2011.


"Security cooperation between the two countries should not stay at a regional level but advance to a global level,"Nakatani said during a meeting with Han in the headquarters of Seoul's defense ministry.


The Japanese defense minister said that Tokyo and Seoul were sharing interests on security. Han and Nakatani last met in Singapore on May 30 on the sidelines of the Shangri-La dialogue, a regional dialogue channel for security in Asia.


During the meeting, the defense ministers discussed security situations on the Korean peninsula, including nuclear and missile threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).


Nakatani also briefed Han on the recent passage of security bills in Japan's Diet that allow its military to fight abroad for its allies, especially the United States, dismissing the pacifist constitution that had banned Tokyo from such military activities since its World War II defeat.


South Korea has been concerned about the passage of security legislation in Japan as Tokyo could repeat its history of aggression on the Korean Peninsula in the name of helping Seoul fight against Pyongyang. The peninsula was under Japan's colonial rule from 1910 to 1945.


"In case that Japan's self-defense forces operate in the territory of another country, (Japan) needs to win consent from the country concerned according to international laws," Nakatani said, adding that it was the guideline of his government.


Han said that Japan's military activities should be pushed in the direction of contributing to peace and stability in Northeast Asia as well as on the Korean Peninsula.


Japan offered to sign agreements on sharing military intelligence with South Korea and providing military logistics to each other, but Seoul refused the proposals due to lack of support from the public and lawmakers caused by ongoing historical and territorial disputes between the two nations.


Nakatani's visit came amid some signs of thawing relations between the two key U.S. military allies. South Korean President Park Geun-hye said last week on her four-day visit to Washington that she was open to a sit-down with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.


Park and Abe were expected to hold the first bilateral summit since she took office in February 2013 in Seoul on the sidelines of a trilateral summit with China believed to be held in coming weeks.


The South Korean leader has refused to sit down face-to-face with Abe, calling on the Japanese premier to make a sincere apology for Korean "comfort women" forcibly recruited to serve in Japan's military brothels during World War II.


Abe made a ritual offering again to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine Saturday, and two cabinet ministers paid respects Sunday. On Tuesday, scores of Japanese politicians visited the shrine, widely seen as a symbol of Japan's militarist past because it honors Japan's war dead including 14 class-A convicted war criminals.


Seoul's foreign ministry said in a statement over the weekend that Abe's offering and cabinet ministers' visits had"no difference from glorifying Japan's past colonization and war of aggression"during the first half of the 20th century.


MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is still at a "very early stage," and cannot be assessed yet, Mexico's Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce (Concanaco) said Monday.


"They are starting to move some topics, but still at the initial stage of proposals, analysis and possibilities," Concanaco's President Enrique Solana told reporters, as he was leaving the hotel hosting the second round of talks in Mexico City.


"There is still time to go before there can be news on the matter. Right now, they are revising, talking and adjusting. They are warming up their engines. It's too soon to say how the talks are going," added Solana.


The three-way talks among Mexico, Canada and the United States, which began with a first round held in Washington in August, aim to update the 1994 trade deal, at the request of the United States.


The United States considers Mexico is unfairly benefiting from the agreement in several areas, including by artificially keeping wages low, which attracts industry owners but lures jobs away from American and Canadian workers.


The United States also wants to amend rules of origin so that NAFTA goods that benefit from tariff exemptions include a higher percentage of components made in North America, another demand Mexico is resisting.


Recent statements by U.S. President Donald Trump, which suggest that his country withdraw from the deal, have made Mexico somewhat nervous, though officials view them as a negotiating tactic.


Concanaco, which represents chambers of commerce, services and tourism, is particularly interested in the subject of e-commerce and its inclusion in an updated NAFTA.


On Tuesday, the second round will move into high gear with the presence of lead negotiators, including Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, said Solana.


North America accounts for a fourth of global gross domestic product (GDP), according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico.


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