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Japan-S Korea deadlock to continue despite Biden push to mend ties

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By Junko Horiuchi

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"North Korea has always been the top priority for (South Korean President) Moon Jae In and Seoul's relationship with Japan or the United States is simply a means" of promoting dialogue with the North, he said.

That's why the US and Japan should never trust the pro-Pyongyang Moon administration. The SK has recently penalized activists who send anti-North Korean material across the border. Very ironically, Moon started a career as human rights lawyer.

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Korea is obsessed with victimizing itself while there are people setting themselves on fire at protests, breaking into the Japanese embassy, harassing a US diplomat for just having a moustache similar to a Japanese general's, refusing to refuel Japanese cars, and trying to trying to put stickers in classrooms saying “This device was made by a war criminal”. Not to mention the activist group that was embezzling money meant for the surviving comfort women or the time Korea lied about consulting the White House before announcing its plan to scrap GSOMIA.

If Korea wants to suck up to the US, it needs to stop blaming everything on Japan and fix the problem with its own people.

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Japanese diplomats have made it clear that under no circumstances will Tokyo budge in its stance over the current row,

Then the US pressure will be mostly aimed at Japan, just like the last time.

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@basu

Have you read this book? If not, you should.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-South-Korea-rift/South-Korean-bestseller-attacking-anti-Japan-tribalism-stirs-debate

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The south Koreans don't understand, they aren't China, Japan don't need them, they are a piss small market. They can bark to sea and pound sand forever.

13 ( +16 / -3 )

Nothing new. South Korean ignorance and hatred will exist long beyond 2021. It is engrained in their culture of perpetual victimhood.

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For reasons that I do not understand, Imperial Japan treated conquered peoples horrendously. To this day, it is not uncommon for large crowds to demonstrate against visiting Japanese diplomats in China, Holland, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, as well as South Korea. Part of the problem is that the peoples of those places were targeted for humiliation and exploitation by the occupying Imperial Japanese Army. Such also happened with the Americans and the Russians, but they had the satisfaction of defeating the IJA in the war. Meanwhile, modern Japan still does not admit the war crimes committed by its forces during the time when the IJA occupied foreign soil.

-16 ( +2 / -18 )

Obama and Biden was there in 2015 when we signed the Comfort Woman Deal with SKorea.

In 2017 S. Korea backed out! Broke the deal! Broke the agreement!

What did Obama do? Nothing!! 0 response!! No consequences for the Korean!

-No consequences for Comfort Woman Deal.

-No consequences for 1965 deal and agreement.

-No consequences for the actions of S. Korea, for breaking promises and aggrements. For always looking to start a new conflict with Japan.

America should realize who is the rock for USA in East Asia. Which country is part of Quad alliance (SKorea Is Not), The Korean wants your help, but he will never return the favor unless it's against North Korea.

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@Hillclimber

South Korea threatened to leave GSOMIA and the United States put pressure on them to stay in the alliance,

Well, Trump administration is going away and Biden administration is pro-Korea, so the pressure will be on Japan to drop the export control(Which is meaningless anyway).

@ReasonandWisdomNippon

What did Obama do? Nothing!! 0 response!! No consequences for the Korean!

1) Democrats are typically pro-Korea.

2) Korea's lobbying capability in Washington DC has increased drastically since 2016, now Korea is the biggest foreign lobby spender in Washington DC. This helps to swey US policy makers see things from Korea's perspective, and this is why the US keeps siding with Korean on Japan-Korea disputes.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-08-17/biggest-spenders-of-foreign-lobbying-in-the-us-comes-from-americas-closest-allies

A breakdown of the OpenSecrets.org data also reveals how different countries wield their influence, even among America's top allies. The spenders in the top two countries – South Korea and Japan – give different amounts to government and nongovernmental organizations.. South Korea's government, for example, spent $52 million last year while nongovernmental spending totaled $10 million. In Japan, its government spent $6 million while nongovernmental spending was almost $33 million.

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You can't deny that kidnapped and enslaved teenage girls into sexual slavery and then claim you apologized for what you're denying what you did all at the same time.

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