Families seek closure for wartime mine disaster as Japan-S Korea relations thaw

Give it a rest eh, South Korea.

Time to resolve all historical issues. Permanently. The security of the region may well depend on it.

Yes it would solve the problem between South Korea and Japan. And future relations between the two countries would be brightened by the rising sun the solitary enblem of the flag of Japan.

@OssanJapan

Time to resolve all historical issues

Responsibility of resolution rests with Japan, not Korea.

Written Apology + Compensation by Japanese mining company will do.

More Korean propaganda Samit. Compensation and apology was given, but no honor Korea, agreement breaker, can't keep a promise, 0 honor South Korea, just like North Korea will break agreements made, agreements signed.

Remember North Korea signed agreement to give up Nuclear Weapons.... Few years later they tested one. No honor, just like South, big Korean lies.

South Korea is already in the pockets of China, made the 3 famous promises to Beijing, Yoon was supposed to deploy more THADD. Wont happen. Defend Taiwan wont happen, never join Quad Alliance to balance China.

Koreans are obsessed with the Past! More then Chinese, more then other Asian groups, Koreans will forever complain about Japan.

If Germany lived next to South Korea and did something wrong, Koreans would complain forever!

It's not about Japan, which has better relations with Asian neighbors constantly improving! Only the Koreans are the ones complaining 24/7 about everything, even when you give them exactly what they asked for! Still cry and complain!

Japan made a good-faith effort under Abe to resolve the comfort women issue. As Japan should have - the country bears responsibility for its actions in Korea. But then the Korean government changed, and the new government ripped up the agreement, and instead of proposing something in its place, when on to use Japan's aggressions against Korea as an attack-vector. The new government of Korea had no interest in resolving the issue. So here we are, almost a decade later, Korea is still complaining, and Japan is still waiting for them to put forward a proposal after Korea ripped up the "final and irreversible" agreement the two nations had previously agreed upon.

@ReasonandWisdomNippon

Yoon was supposed to deploy more THADD. Wont happen.

It won't happen because the ROK military opposes it.

Korea's THAAD-class interceptor is currently going through a series of interception tests. There is no point in THAAD deployment when L-SAM can be deployed faster than THAAD order delivery.

Additionally, L-SAM has none of THAAD's design flaws and doesn't require massive plot of land to be deployed. Land is extremely hard to come by in northern Korea, estimates of $5 billion were being floated around just for the land.

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20221122002200325

S. Korea succeeds in L-SAM missile intercepting test: military

09:41 November 22, 2022

SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has conducted a successful missile interception test of its L-SAM system under development, a key element of the country's envisioned layered missile defense shield, called the Korea Air and Missile Defense (KAMD) designed to counter advancing threats from North Korea, according to military officials here Tuesday.

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Defend Taiwan wont happen

No one has ever promised to defend Taiwan.

never join Quad Alliance

Why join it?

Koreans are obsessed with the Past! 

So that Korea doesn't repeat the mistakes of the past.

Koreans know why Imperial Japanese military failed during the Pacific War than Japanese do, thus Japan doesn't stand a chance against Korea if two were to go to war because Koreans know from their history education why Imperial Japan failed but Japanese do not.

This is why history education is so important, in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Those who forgot history are bound to repeat it.

@ReasonandWisdomNippon

If Germany lived next to South Korea and did something wrong, Koreans would complain forever!

Not really because Germany teaches the brutally honest and truthful version of history to its children to earn the trust of its neighbors that Germany will never go back to Nazism again.

The same isn't true of Japan, busy whitewashing its wartime history at home, leaving Japanese youth to wonder why Japan's neighbors are eager to go to war with Japan for blood vengeance.

This is why Japanese intervention of Taiwan War is extra-dangerous, because Japan would be giving China the perfect excuse to go to war with Japan that they have been seeking since 1945 and avenge the death of 30 million Chinese killed by Imperial Japan.

Koreans are obsessed with the Past! 

So that Korea doesn't repeat the mistakes of the past.

Children in South Korea are being indoctrinated to hold onto their grandparents' grudges. Some made crayon drawings of Japan being nuked. Another time, Gyeonggi district proposed putting stickers on devices in all classrooms that said, "This device was made by a war criminal."

"Don't repeat the mistakes of the past" is an excuse after the fact.

In other words, how much money is Japan going to fork over to SK this time?

stormcrow Today  08:09 am JST

In other words, how much money is Japan going to fork over to SK this time?

I know what you mean! Everytime they need money, they try to guilt trip Japan by brandishing some elderly people in front of a camera claiming them to be victims. Its not that I don't have any humanity or lack there of, I have DETAILED studies of some of the disgusting the Japanese did to kidnapped men, the barbaric atrocities they did to women (young sand old) and the unmentionable things to children/babies, its that the 2 countries had signed a peace treaty since 1968 and paid millions in reparations, donations and made peace in the hopes of implying that what happened in the past never happens again. But it seems like every year, you'd hear the coin pan a-rattlin'! That'd be like all Indian people in India bugging England 3-4 times a year for the damages they did to their people when they were dominated during the "Rule Britania! Britania, rule the world!" campain!

LoveJapanToday  05:56 am JST

All Japan needs to do is exhibit genuine remorse and full recognition. Not just writing some half-hearted apology letter. 

Japan already has.Calling an apology "half hearted" is an excuse to reject it and perpatuate the demand. Japan has complied with every demand that South Korea has made. Only for South Koreato break their word and keep moving the goalpost further away. Really about time South Korea got over it and started looking forward instead of backward. President Yoon recognizes this and is acting in the best interests of his country. Folks like you are obstructing it.

Awa no GaijinToday  06:26 am JST

Meanwhile war criminals have been enshrined as heroes.

Nope. Their names are enshrined as having died for their country. Same as all the other names there.They are not recognized or regarded as "heroes". Please stop posting total inflamatory nonsense.