Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung-wha attended the 9th East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, held in Bangkok, the Kingdom of Thailand, on August 2, during which Minister Kang shared views on regional and international issues, including the Korean Peninsula. Minister Kang, sternly pointing out the unfairness of Japan’s measures to remove the ROK from its whitelist announced on the morning of the same day, as well as its unilateral and arbitrary export restrictive measures against the ROK, expressed grave concerns over Japan’s decisions.