South Korean Left Unhappy with Improving Relations Between Seoul and Tokyo
The usual suspects out protesting increasingly cooperation between South Korea and Japan:
Political strife escalated Saturday over the recent South Korea-Japan summit, as the liberal opposition took to the streets blasting President Yoon Suk Yeol for cozying up to Tokyo and looking past historical disputes on wartime forced labor.
Yoon held a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Thursday to mend ties strained by historical disputes stemming from Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula from 1910-45.
Earlier this month, South Korea announced its plan to compensate the victims of wartime forced labor through a foundation with donations from domestic companies and not the accused Japanese firms, a move opposed by the victims, opposition parties and activists.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but where were these activists and protesters when the last Korean president Moon Jae-in was cozying up to Kim Jong-un? He is in charge of regime that has killed far more Koreans than Imperial Japan could ever dream of. Additionally Kim Jong-un is in charge of regime that continues to regularly threaten South Korea with annihilation and enslaves a large amount of Koreans in labor camps among other human rights violations.
Yet these activists are more concerned about stopping cooperation with a country that actually wants to help South Korea defend itself from annihilation from North Korea. This is despite Japan’s transgressions happening 75+ years ago that they have repeatedly apologized and made compensation for. Where is North Korea’s apologies and compensation for all the destruction and deaths they have committed against South Korea in the 75+ years since World War II?
When the Korean left starts making demands for apologies and compensation from North Korea then maybe I will take their claims against Japan seriously.
No, Japan is not interested in helping out South Korea. lol.
Please don’t misrepresent the facts. Japan didn’t have to apologize or compensate anyone because Japan didn’t do anything wrong to Korea. Any past apologies that were made, were based on false evidence that has all been discredited by world historians. The Comfort Women were volunteers, as well as the Korean laborers who also volunteered. Facts are facts. All the evidence points to the fact that Koreans have lied to the world and still continue to hold on to these ideas that are probably formulated by Communist North Korea.
South Korean Communist want to unite under the red banner of Kim and become a vassal state of the CCP.