South Korean president says ready to talk with Japan amid frayed ties
South Korean president says ready to talk with Japan amid frayed ties. President Moon Jae-in of South Korea announced that his Government is able to address historic and business problems with Japan in the form of an expansion of strained relations between Seoul and Tokyo. Moon said in his national TV address, on the 1st of March of 1919, on the 102nd anniversary of the Liberation Motion. That took place during the 1910-1945 Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula. Our government is willing to sit down at any time and hold talks with the Japanese Government.
I am sure that, if we unite our heads to try to consider the viewpoints of each other, we will be able to address past problems wisely. Quoted the President from the Xinhua news agency. Over the past decade, Seoul-Tokyo has a cold condition in terms of trade tensions and historical problems including Japan’s sex trafficking of Korean women in the army and Korean hard-work without pay before and after the Second World War. A South Korean court decided earlier this year by the Japanese government to compensate harm to sex trafficking victims in South Korea. But Japan appealed against a court decision on the sovereign immunity of a nation in international courts.
Japan maintains that all colonial-era problems settle by the 1965 Pact
The Seoul Court held that immunity is not valid as the massacres committed in a systematic, widespread, and comprehensive manner by Japan during the war are crimes against humanity. Japan maintains that all colonial-era problems were settled by the 1965 Pact which standardizes diplomatic relations between Seoul and Tokyo. In the light of the past, we should take a lesson. It is not disgraceful to learn from previous failures. But more a way to win the world’s esteem, said Moon.
Moon says its government will continue to seek smart strategies focused on an agenda that emphasizes victims. Similarly, It pledges to make every effort to recover the reputation and honor. South Korea’s leader noted that his administration would focus more on potential development, while “separately” settling the issues of the past, reiterating its two-way approach to historical issues.
