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Japan and South Korea ministers abandon Washington press event amid island row

US deputy secretary of state was left to answer questions alone amid simmering tensions over Takeshima/Dokdo islandsA long-running territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea has burst on to the global stage after their vice foreign ministers failed to attend a press conference in Washington with their US counterpart.South Korean’s first vice-foreign minister, Choi Jong-kun, and Japan’s vice foreign minister, Takeo Mori, had been due to ap…