Distorting media coverage of US-Japan negotiations 'regrettable'

[Korean Farmers and Fishermen Newspaper] Recent reports of "Japan opening its rice market" in the U.S.-Japan mutual tariff negotiations have led to widespread arguments that Korea should also open its agricultural market to gain practical benefits such as the reduction of automobile tariffs. However, Japan's negotiation content only involved adjusting the proportion of U.S. rice imports without increasing the total amount of rice imports. The Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries also clearly stated that there would be no additional imported rice. To frame this as "market opening" and apply pressure for opening to Korean agriculture is a distortion of reality and irresponsible public manipulation. The situations of Korea and Japan are different. Japan flexibly adjusts the TRQ (Tariff Rate Quota) quantities without country-specific allocations, but Korea has already fixed quotas with five countries, requiring the agreement of all parties to change the proportion ...