Japan‘s Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko speaks to journalists during a news conference at his ministry following a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved the removal of South Korea from a “whitelist” of countries with preferential trade status, a move sure to fuel antagonism already at a boiling point over recent export controls and the issue of compensation for wartime Korean laborers. (Mari Tokumitsu/Kyodo News via AP) <저작권자(c) 연합뉴스, 무단 전재-재배포 금지>