In, January 2018, South Korea's president Moon Jae-in called the 2015 agreement "undeniable" and that it "finally and irreversibly" is an official agreement between the two countrie, however when referring to aspects of the agreement he finds flawed, he said, "A knot wrongly tied should be untied." These remarks come a day after the government announced it would not seek to renew the 2015 aggreement, but that it wants Japan to do more to settle the issue. Moon said, "A real settlement would come if the victims can forgive, after Japan makes a sincere apology and takes other actions".