President Moon Trying to Improve Relations With Japan Before Tokyo Olympic Games
According to the article President Moon is only doing this to try and promote his North Korea engagement policies during the Summer Olympics like he did during the last Winter Olympics:
President Moon Jae-in’s rush to resolute serious issues with Japan before the Tokyo Olympic Games is not going as well as Cheong Wa Dae had hoped.
Moon named former four-term ruling party lawmaker Kang Chang-il as the next ambassador to Japan last month. It was the first time he had named a politician to the post, after first appointing Lee Su-hoon, an international relations professor, and then Nam Kwan-pyo, a career diplomat and one of the foremost experts on Japan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Nam has served as the Korean ambassador to Japan since May 2019. It is considered rare for the envoy to Japan to be replaced less than two years after being appointed. Cheong Wa Dae said that sending a politician to the post has a particular meaning amid the deadlock in bilateral relations.
“With the launch of the new Cabinet in Japan, it reflects the President’s determination to find a resolution to the problems in bilateral relations,” a senior presidential aide said. “Kang served as head of the Korea-Japan Parliamentarians’ Union and has built an extensive network in Japan. Based on this, we determined it would be more suitable to send a politician rather than a career diplomat.” (……..)“One major factor in the Moon administration’s renewed push to improve relations with Japan is the possibility that doing so will allow the Tokyo Olympics to serve as a potential showplace for a breakthrough with North Korea,” Mason Richey, associate professor of international politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, told The Korea Times.
Korea Times
You can read more at the link, but I don’t see the Japanese wanting to do the Moon administration any favors considering all the anti-Japanese policies and rhetoric they have pushed the past few years.
Fatty ordered him to get him tickets to Disney. Wants to one up his dead brother and go legitimately.
The Korea-Japan relationship in a nutshell
1. Person B steals candy bar from Person A’s child.
2. Person B later compensates Person A for the stolen candy, and says
that the matter is closed and Person A agrees
3. Person A spends the money on buying himself a cigarette instead of buying
his kid a new candy bar.
4. Person A later realizes that since he has spent the money for buying a cigarette
he doesn’t have the money to buy his kid a new candy bar, and so asks his
wife for money, failing to mention the fact that he had been compensated and that
he spent the compensation money on a cigarette and as a result gets an earful from
his wife for not getting compensation from Person B
5. Person A then goes to Person B and angrily demands that he be compensated
again for the stolen candy and adds that an apology should be given
6. Person B states that he regrets stealing the candy. He also adds that there is no
need for compensation since he had already compensated Person A for the stolen
candy and that they both agreed that the matter was closed.
7. Person A then sues Person B for the stolen candy. Person B then counter
sues
7. Person A also puts up banners around the neighborhood accusing Person B
of stealing his kid’s candy and not compensating for it.
8. Person B then asks the local authorities to remove the banners, but some
people close to Person A try to block the efforts
9. All of a sudden, Person A pretends nothing has happened and tries to make
amends because if he isn’t in good terms with Person B then his long held dream of
getting a business contract from Person C goes up in smoke
10. Person B tells Person A to F— off.
TOK, you have nailed it.
TOK well put; except the money wasn’t spent on cigarettes….