South Korea and Japan are in talks on holding summit talks between their leaders in Washington next week, a news report said Wednesday.

The two sides are coordinating the meeting on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit set for March 31-April 1, Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.

Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea's presidential office, did not make any immediate reaction to the report.

The meeting, if held, would be the first since December when Seoul and Tokyo produced a landmark deal on resolving the issue of the Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II.

Under the deal, Japan formally apologized for its past actions and offered 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) in reparations. South Korea agreed to end the dispute once and for all if Japan fully implements the deal.

Park has vowed to make the utmost efforts to help victims restore their honor and heal their scars.

South Korean victims are dying off. In 2007, more than 120 known South Korean victims were alive, but the number has since dropped to 44, with their average age standing at 89.

Historians estimate that more than 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, were forced to work in front-line brothels for the Japanese military during the war. Korea was under Japanese colonial rule from 1910-45. (Yonhap)