Anchor: President Moon Jae-in and his Japanese counterpart have agreed to exert the strongest pressure against North Korea to induce an abandonment of its weapons program. Their solution is to persuade China and Russia to join UN Security Council sanctions to cut off oil supplies to the North. In a summit meeting on Thursday, the two leaders also shared the view that history shouldn't constrain bilateral relations.  
Kim In-kyung has the details. 

Report: President Moon Jae-in agreed with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to pursue stronger sanctions against North Korea, including a ban on oil exports to the reclusive country.
 
The two leaders shared the view in a summit meeting on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia on Thursday.
 
Presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan said the two nations will persuade China and Russia to pursue tougher sanctions.
 
Moon and Abe agreed that now is the time to pile on the strongest pressure and sanctions against the North rather than pursuing dialogue amid Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests.
 
Moon said it is important not to deteriorate the situation on the peninsula to an uncontrollable state. He said as anxiety is escalating among the people of South Korea and Japan, the two nations should exert the greatest pressure on the North so that it will abandon its weapons program, but at the same time resolve the issue in a peaceful way.
 
Abe agreed that Seoul and Tokyo should convince China and Russia so that the UN Security Council can adopt tougher sanctions against the North.
 
Regarding issues of history, the two leaders agreed to manage their differences in a stable manner and increase cooperation in a future-oriented way.
 
Yoon said that although the leaders touched upon wartime victims of Japan’s sex slavery and forced labor, they agreed that relations between the two countries shouldn’t be dragged down by history.
 
The two sides also agreed to resume senior-level exchanges in various sectors, including the economy. 
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio News.