PRIME TIME NEWS 22:00 Korean FM: Forecast for Korea-Japan summit this year "cloudy"

PRIME TIME NEWS 22:00 Title: Korean FM: Forecast for Korea-Japan summit this year "cloudy" We start with the latest prospects of a meeting between President Park and Japan′s Shinzo Abe. And though both have been in office for a while... they′ve yet to meet one-on-one. According to Seoul′s top diplomat... the forecast for South Korea-Japan relations remains cloudy... and the sun will shine again... only if and when Tokyo acts with sincerity. Hwang Sung-hee starts us off. The forecast for a summit between President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this year is "cloudy." In an interview with Korean radio station CBS on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said a show of Japanese sincerity over historical issues remains a precondition to summit talks. He added that resolving the urgent issue of Japan′s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women would be a good place to start. Yun said measures that can be accepted by the 55 former sex slaves still alive... and the international community would be regarded as measures of sincerity. His remarks follow a string of meetings between the two countries this month. Yun held private talks with Japanese Ambassador to Korea Koro Bessho for the first time, while President Park welcomed former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who brought a personal letter from Abe. The vice foreign ministers from Korea and Japan met in Tokyo Wednesday for their first strategic dialogue since President Park took office in February of 2013. The frequent diplomatic exchanges raised speculation that the two neighbors were preparing for what would be the first summit between their leaders... with November′s APEC summit in Beijing as the likely stage. But President Park remains adamant she will not meet with Abe until he apologizes for Tokyo′s wartime atrocities. As the two sides remain wide apart on the comfort women issue, the Korean foreign minister said it will likely be some time before the sun shines again. Hwang Sung-hee, Arirang News. Title: Korea commemorates 66th Armed Forces Day South Korea marked the Armed Forces Day today. President Park Geun-hye said ′thank you′ to her country′s soldiers... while also reminding them that it′s the military′s role to contribute to a peaceful unification of the two Koreas. Our Sohn Jung-in has more. South Korea staged a massive ceremony on Wednesday to honor the military on its 66th Armed Forces Day. At the military headquarters in Daejeon, President Park Geun-hye started her speech by describing the current security situation on the Korean peninsula. She said the North had been raising tensions in the region while pursuing the development of its nuclear weapon and missile programs. She then urged Pyongyang to join Seoul′s efforts to build trust and lay the groundwork for the potential unification of the divided Korean peninsula. "North Korea should abandon its nuclear weapons program and become a respons