South Korean Court Orders Seizure of Japanese Assets Due to Forced Labor Ruling
For those that have not been following this issue, the Japanese side does not dispute the forced labor claim, what they dispute is that they already paid compensation with the 1965 treaty. Instead of handing out money for individual compensation, the ROK government used the money to develop the economy instead.
A South Korean court said Wednesday it has ordered the seizure of local assets of a Japanese company after it refused to compensate several wartime forced laborers, in an escalation of a diplomatic brawl between the Asian neighbors.
Japan called the decision “extremely regrettable” and said it will push for talks with Seoul on the issue.
In a landmark ruling in October, South Korea’s Supreme Court ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay 100 million won ($88,000) each to four plaintiffs forced to work for the company when Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula in 1910-45.But the company refused to follow that ruling, siding with Japan’s long-held positon that all colonial-era compensation issues were settled by a 1965 treaty that restored diplomatic relations between the two governments. Japanese officials said they could take the issue to the International Court of Justice.
Associated Press
You can read more at the link, but is the ROK government going support someone who makes a compensation claim against China for their role in the destruction of South Korea during the Korean War that killed tens of thousands of South Koreans?
By the way Joshua Stanton over at One Free Korea makes a good point, I wonder how much the sagging Moon administration approval ratings have to do with this?
I haven't read the news today. Are the South Korean president's approval ratings down? https://t.co/Tway5G267Y
— Joshua Stanton (@freekorea_us) January 9, 2019
what a commie clown show!
Maybe this is a step in a regional realignment…
Korea alienates Japan, pushes out America, and gets cozy with China and North Korea.
There are some good reasons to do that.
Most of them may not end in long-term happiness of Koreans or the success of a proud, insependent Korea.
Yeah, Korea can start laying tribute at the western gate again. Fools
All is proceeding as I predicted.
And it makes me very sad.
I still have family in Korea. And they are going to suffer if things go down this path much further.
Zimbabwe went from imperfect but economically viable to what Trump might have called a ****-hole after Pyongyang-trained Robert Mugabe took over in 1980. Tens of Millions of people in Zimbabwe and surrounding nations died of starvation and disease because Mugabe shut down the white-owned farms and gave the land as estates to his inner circle.
Venezuela was the richest nation in South America. It still has more oil than Saudi Arabia. But Hugo Chavez’s policies destroyed the goose that laid the golden egg. Now they can’t sell oil because their harbors are so filthy that the ships aren’t allowed to dock anywhere else. Just try to find food, toilet paper, or any hope for the Venezuelan people. Just try.
North Korea, before 1945, had the forests, the industry, and an equivalent population with South Korea. South Korea was primarily rice paddies. Now the North is full of worm-ridden “elite” troops, starvation, disease, and people willing to risk death to escape. The south, with a formerly booming economy, KPop, corporate giants like Samsung and LG with sales all over the world, is rotting just like Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
Why? Is it some sort of racist indoctrination? Or is it something worse?