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elephant200
Now that cozy strategy by Mr.Kishida is no more working !
リッチ
They should because if the Japanese government doesn’t get their act together the Japanese people might get the idea to do the same.
u_s__reamer
"Watching with concern" (lest the idea of holding government leaders to account catches on in Japan?)
Five Families
The martial law idea was a really dumb. So many other ways to draw out the North Korean supporters or the weak left.
Matt
Throw away the key.
itsonlyrocknroll
The opposition "liberal" Lee Jae-myung leader, another perverse contradiction in terms, is a traitorous worthless duplicitous harpy toady for Northern Korean despot deceivers.
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, maybe hapless, a rush of blood to the head, in judgment without pausing for political guileful recourse of action achieve an aim, to manage improve future choices.
However I believe a patriot.
J government will need to be on there toes ready to respond to regional political change
lostrune2
Yoon is South Korea's Trump
kaimycahl
@lostrune2 and lost tune is like "Forrest Gump".
Yoon is South Korea's Trump
smithinjapan
I can just see it... "What?? In South Korea they can detain corrupt leaders??"
lostrune2: "Yoon is South Korea's Trump"
How so? I think we can both agree, though, that if you want to bring the US into this that at least Korea cleans up its messes, while Americans are more than happy to wallow in their own waste.
Wesley
Pity about President Yoon.
I respect him because he was the only South Korean president in recent times to make an effort to mend ties with Japan.
All the others merely stoked Koreans' hatred towards Japanese in order to divert attention from their own internal issues.
lostrune2
Even Yoon's own supporters say it:
https://japantoday.com/category/world/south-korean-investigators-arrest-impeached-president-yoon1
quercetum
Asians are mostly authoritarians. Some are cool headed like the Japanese; level headed like the Chinese; and some hot headed threatening shooting nuclear missiles and declaring Martial Law to fight their opponents.
Agent_Neo
Lee Jae-min! Lee Jae-min!
There's no need for temporary friendship.
The fake friendship between Kishida and Yoon Seok-yeol is over.
In the first place, there is nothing that can be resolved through discussion with the Chinese or Koreans.
For Japan, the important neighboring countries are the United States and Taiwan.
The people of both countries will welcome the fact that the next president will finally be Lee Jae-min, a four-time offender. Please go ahead with your anti-Japanese stance that surpasses Moon Jae-in's.
itsonlyrocknroll
Democratic leadership globally has recklessly foolishly taken peoples trust for granted, sometimes contemptuously.
Japan, South Korea peoples disserve a government that they can trust to unite both countries, promise past historic grievances can be overcome, not be political weaponised to furnish toxic discontent.
Generation after generations
Donald Trump presidency although promises change, could not be congenial of/to the best interests for the whole Northeast Asia region.
Where does that leave J people, my family?
In limbo,
Government unable to establish a relationship based on trust.
Maybe the best course of action is to wait and see.
elephant200
This is purely a political vengeance of typical South Koreans. Somedays later a movie about Yoon and his presidency will be showing in cinema or Netflix. The major theme will be focusing on his pro-Japanese alliance that was hated by the South Koreans!
virusrex
Looking at the recent history between Japan and SK this is not likely to happen at all, every change of government in SK have brought whiplash inducing changes in attitude towards Japan, one government trying to get closer, the next treating it as an enemy, by this point it is almost tradition.
Yrral
Korean not like Japanese leaders are held accountable,only the insecure worried