Japanese Diplomat Makes Inappropriate Comment About President Moon in Wake of Summit Meeting Controversy
You don’t say something like this to any reporter much less JTBC even if you think it is off the record:
![Hirohisa Soma, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy, is summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in central Seoul on July 13 over an earlier contretemps after Tokyo renewed claims over Korea’s easternmost Dokdo islets in its annual defense white paper for the 17th consecutive year. [YONHAP]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2021/07/18/6e7bd34a-b660-4828-92d4-5a2b54309129.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
Japan’s deputy chief of mission in Korea reportedly described President Moon Jae-in’s efforts to hold a Korea-Japan summit during the Tokyo Olympics as masturbatory in a conversation with a JTBC reporter on Friday.
Joong Ang Ilbo
According to JTBC, the reporter asked Hirohisa Soma his thoughts on the chance for a Korea-Japan summit taking place during the Tokyo Olympics, to which Soma reportedly responded in a combination of Korean and English, “President Moon is masturbating himself.”
Soma added that Japan “does not have the time to care so muchabout the relationship between the two countries as Korea thinks.”
“The conversation took place [in a casual meeting,] not a public press event, but we decided to run a report because we felt the remarks were not appropriate,” JTBC reported.
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“we decided to run a report because we felt the remarks were not appropriate”
So whether you’re on the record or not doesn’t matter? If he had said “Mun’s a swell dude.” they would’ve said “Hmm, I’d like to run with that but we were off the record…”
People say Lawyers are the worst, nah Journalists are the worst. They operate under the flimsiest guidelines, constantly violate their own principals, cry for unmatched protections while ever perverting what they claim to be on a whim.
“Help, I’m going to fall off this cliff!”
“Sorry, I’m a journalist, I can’t be involved, I’ll just film you and comment.”
“Mun’s jerking himself off.”
“Yeah, even though I said this was off the record I’m definitely running with it because this will get clicks!”
“We need to know the source of your article, these claims are serious.”
“Sorry, as a journalist I cannot reveal my source, if you violate one of many sacred trusts of reporters.”
“Uhh hey this Covington story you rushed out, there’s like tens of thousands of people clearly and easily disputing the narrative you’re presenting, you going to retract or clarify it?”
“Shut up and look at the great job I did of cropping this video to make it look like Trump was stupidly trying to overfeed these fish in Japan!”
Ha, you accused journalists of having principles. Unintended humor?
Not going to defend the Chrysanthemum Crowd; but these days it seems journalists are all scum.
Smokes, Japanese embassy reprimanded that Japanese, and the Japanese government promised to do something about that dude for inappropriate remarks which were uttered during a meeting with Korean reporters (so it’s not just one report, nor was the remarks off the record). Even our resident Abe admirer, TOK, wouldn’t defend such behavior from the 2nd in command at the Japanese embassy in Seoul.
Anyway, the Tokyo Games are now on, let the world find out the truth of how Japan has collapsed into a Banana Republic mode. lol.