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The two sides also agreed to hold a joint humanitarian search-and-rescue exercise in June, the first in almost a decade.<\/div>\n<div>Tensions, however, remain, including lingering disputes over Korean women forced to \u2060work in \u200bJapanese military brothels during World War Two. 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