TS: BLACK
CD1: RED
CD2: GREEN
CD3: PURPLE
CONCLUSION: BLACK
According to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL's article called "Japan-South Korea ‘Comfort Women’ Deal Faces Backlash in Seoul," they stated that most of the public & 'former military sexual slave women' rejected this deal because of absence of communication, irresponsibility of both governments, and exploit this issue for government's benefit. South-Korean government dogmatically dealt with Japan government without talking with the concerned women. They also didn't think their concerned women's mental anguish, if so, the President would not said to victims they should accept this deal because of this is the best. Ha. South-Korean government exploit this issue as a breakthrough that improves coordination between Korean and Japan, against North Korea and China's increasing threat. South-Korean government's deal with Japan is criticizing because of uncommunicativeness, absurdity, and shrewd about this issue.
Source: GALE, ALASTAIR."Japan-South Korea ‘Comfort Women’ Deal Faces Backlash in Seoul." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3 Jan 2016. WEB. 30 March 2016.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/comfort-women-deal-faces-backlash-in-seoul-1451557585
Woo-Chang-Wuk
CD1: RED
CD2: GREEN
CD3: PURPLE
CONCLUSION: BLACK
According to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL's article called "Japan-South Korea ‘Comfort Women’ Deal Faces Backlash in Seoul," they stated that most of the public & 'former military sexual slave women' rejected this deal because of absence of communication, irresponsibility of both governments, and exploit this issue for government's benefit. South-Korean government dogmatically dealt with Japan government without talking with the concerned women. They also didn't think their concerned women's mental anguish, if so, the President would not said to victims they should accept this deal because of this is the best. Ha. South-Korean government exploit this issue as a breakthrough that improves coordination between Korean and Japan, against North Korea and China's increasing threat. South-Korean government's deal with Japan is criticizing because of uncommunicativeness, absurdity, and shrewd about this issue.
Source: GALE, ALASTAIR."Japan-South Korea ‘Comfort Women’ Deal Faces Backlash in Seoul." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3 Jan 2016. WEB. 30 March 2016.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/comfort-women-deal-faces-backlash-in-seoul-1451557585
Woo-Chang-Wuk
April. 3 2016
2016311959
Tears
about abandoned people by country (By. Eric Clapton)
According to THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL's article called "Japan-South Korea ‘Comfort
Women’ Deal Faces Backlash in Seoul," they stated
that most of the public & 'former military sexual slave women' rejected
this deal because of absence of communication, irresponsibility of both governments, and exploit this issue for
government's benefit. South-Korean government dogmatically dealt with Japan
government without talking with the concerned women. They also didn't think their concerned women's mental anguish,
if so, the President would not said to victims they should accept this deal
because of this is the best. Ha. South-Korean
government exploit this issue as a breakthrough that improves coordination
between Korean and Japan, against North Korea and China's increasing threat. South-Korean government's deal with Japan
is criticizing because of uncommunicativeness, absurdity, and shrewd about this
issue.
The article about Korea and Japan government’s deal about comfort
women aroused my experience about Monument to comfort women, in front of the
Japanese embassy, which was grief, fury, and hope.
In front of the Japanese embassy, I could feel about
concerned women’s anguish, which was about Japanese brutality behavior to young
girls. The chief of assembly said this assembly
has been hold since 1980s, but Japanese government don’t meet comfort women, this
behavior is really evoke hostility. However I
could also feel this assembly’s desire that now condition is bad, but someday
this will change , cause this assembly is not alone. My experience about
in front of Japanese embassy, I could sense bitterness,
resentment, and wish.
Source: GALE, ALASTAIR."Japan-South Korea ‘Comfort Women’ Deal Faces
Backlash in Seoul." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3
Jan 2016. WEB. 30 March 2016.
Chang Wuk, Woo. “In front of the Japaness embassy” 2016. JPG FILE
Japan-South
Korea ‘Comfort Women’ Deal Faces Backlash in Seoul
Hopes for improved security ties undermined as former
WWII sex slaves and their allies protest agreement
Rejecting a deal announced by the South Korean and Japanese governments,
people protest on Dec. 30 at a statue symbolizing "comfort women" in
front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. Photo: Reuters
Updated Jan. 3,
2016 12:29 a.m. ET
SEOUL—A deal
between Japan and South Korea to settle a dispute over wartime sexual slavery
helps create a path for the countries to work more closely on regional security,
but a backlash in Korea threatens to complicate progress.
On Monday, Tokyo
and Seoul said they had “finally and irreversibly” resolved a decadeslong spat
over reparations for Korean women used as forced sex workers by the Japanese
military in the 1930s and 1940s. Under the deal, Tokyo agreed to pay around $8
million in support funds for the surviving women and extended an apology from
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
U.S. officials
heralded the agreement as a breakthrough that improves coordination between its
allies in Northeast Asia against the military threat from North Korea and
China’s increasing assertiveness. A senior U.S. official said it was as
strategically important for Washington as the 12-nation Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade deal.
One potential
step to increase bilateral cooperation is for Seoul to sign an agreement with
Tokyo on sharing military intelligence, such as on North Korea’s nuclear
missile program. South Korea has declined to complete the pact since 2012
because of domestic political pressure against closer links with Japan.
Instead, the U.S. acts as a go-between to pass on information between the Asian
nations.
In October,
South Korea’s defense minister told his Japanese counterpart that historical
grievances, such as the issue of sexual slavery of Korean women, needed to be
addressed before a deal can be forged on direct exchanges of intelligence. The
so-called “comfort women” dispute is the core issue of several legacies of
Japan’s 35-year colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to the end of
World War II that continue to irritate bilateral ties.
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Young South Korean students are learning about the Japanese military’s use
of “comfort women,” or forced prostitutes, in the 1930s and 1940s. Photo:
Reuters
A spokesman for
the South Korean Defense Ministry didn’t respond to a request for comment on
whether Seoul would consider moving forward with the military
information-sharing deal.
South Korea’s
government may first be focused on building domestic support for the comfort
women agreement. A survey published on Thursday by Realmeter showed 50.7% of
the South Korean public felt the deal was unsatisfactory, compared with 43.2%
who were satisfied. The dissatisfaction rating rose to around 70% among those
in their 20s and 30s, the poll showed.
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The survey
results didn’t include reasons for the respondents’ answers, but former comfort
women and activists have criticized the agreement for failing to state the
legal liability of the Japanese government. A South Korean Foreign Ministry
official said in a media briefing that the agreement is sufficient because it
acknowledges Japan’s responsibility for the system of sexual slavery.
Some former
comfort women have also been angered by the government’s lack of consultation
with them during negotiations with Japan. “Why should the government rashly
reach a deal? We won’t accept it,” local media reported that 90-year-old former
comfort women Kim Kun-ja told a senior government official during a visit to a
shelter for the women the day after the agreement was announced.
Activists have
pledged to continue to oppose the agreement. On Wednesday, two former comfort
women joined a protest of several hundred people outside the Japanese Embassy
in Seoul against the deal. The same day, a local court opened a damages suit
against the Japanese government on behalf of 10 former comfort women.
South Korean former "comfort women" Lee Yong-Soo, in gray scarf,
and Gil Won-Ok, wearing red gloves, shout slogans during a protest in Seoul on
Dec. 30, 2015. Photo: Agence
France-Presse/Getty Images
A further
flashpoint is the status of a statue outside the Japanese Embassy representing
a young comfort woman. Tokyo wants the statue removed but a separate Realmeter
opinion poll showed two-thirds of South Koreans opposed to relocating it.
The agreement
has also been slammed by opposition politicians and prompted critical newspaper
editorials. “The deal amounts to a treaty in which the people’s rights are
surrendered,” Moon Jae-in, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party,
said on Wednesday, calling the deal “invalid.”
“An agreement in
jeopardy,” was the headline on a Thursday editorial in the center-right
Joongang Ilbo that expressed concerns about whether Koreans would accept the
deal.
Despite the
backlash, the agreement has a better chance of holding together than other
efforts in recent decades to resolve the comfort women dispute, experts say.
Jennifer Lind, an East Asia specialist at Dartmouth College, says the
commitment of the South Korean government to a resolution for the first time,
as well as Japanese conservatives aligned with Mr. Abe, is crucial.
“Having those
two groups on board is very important for the agreement to really succeed in
putting this controversy to rest,” she said.
On Thursday,
South Korean President Park Geun-hye sought to bolster support for the deal in
a statement issued by her office, saying it would be “extremely difficult” to
reach a deal to satisfy everyone.
If “critics
can’t accept the agreement and try to take the issue back to the beginning...there
is little we can do further to help the survivors while they are alive,” she
said.
Still, some
observers caution that South Korea’s opposition may continue to pressure the
government over the deal and could even try to renegotiate the dispute under a
new president, due to be elected at the end of 2017. “I don’t think we’ve seen
the last of this,” said Karl Friedhoff, a Korea expert at the Chicago Council
on Global Affairs.
Write to Alastair Gale at
alastair.gale@wsj.com
