President Yoon and Prime Minister Kishida a Visit Korean Memorial in Hiroshima
Here is another sign of how President Yoon and Prime Minister Kishida are working together on not allowing historical issues derail their bilateral relationship:
President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday paid tribute to South Korean victims of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in a symbolic gesture to transcend the two countries’ historical issues and normalize their ties.Â
Korea Times
During a summit that followed, just two weeks after their previous meeting in Seoul, the leaders agreed that their visit was “a courageous act toward the future” and the two countries should cooperate to tackle various global challenges.
“Today, I and Prime Minister Kishida together paid a tribute to the monument,” Yoon said during the summit. “It was about paying condolences to the South Korean victims of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and at the same time will be remembered as the prime minister’s courageous act toward a peaceful future.”
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While I am sorry that Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were necessary, the Japanese and Koreans who assisted them could have avoided it by not bombing Pearl Harbor on a Sunday 30 minutes before they declared war. And they may have even softened it if they were less brutal to those they captured.
But they brought it on themselves.
May we all learn from this.