Deploying military aircraft for the first time to do this, South Korea "scored points" with Japan

In a phone call on October 15, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa thanked her South Korean counterpart Park Jin for helping Japanese citizens leave Israel last week, amid serious conflict between the Jewish state and Hamas militants.

South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin held a phone call with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa on October 15. (Source: The Korea Herald)

The phone call took place a day after a South Korean military plane carrying 163 South Koreans, 51 Japanese, and 6 Singaporeans returned from Israel to Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, just south of the capital Seoul.

During the phone call, both sides agreed to cooperate closely for the safety of their citizens worldwide , with Foreign Minister Kamikawa pledging Japan's active cooperation in similar situations in the future.

On October 13, South Korea deployed a KC-330 refueling transport aircraft to evacuate its citizens from Israel following the surprise Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.

This marks the first time the South Korean government has deployed military aircraft for this purpose and is the second flight to bring South Koreans home from Israel, following the return of 192 people on a Korean Air flight on October 11.

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