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Now that cozy strategy by Mr.Kishida is no more working !

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They should because if the Japanese government doesn’t get their act together the Japanese people might get the idea to do the same.

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"Watching with concern" (lest the idea of holding government leaders to account catches on in Japan?)

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The martial law idea was a really dumb. So many other ways to draw out the North Korean supporters or the weak left.

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Throw away the key.

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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

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Yoon is South Korea's Trump

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@lostrune2 and lost tune is like "Forrest Gump".

Yoon is South Korea's Trump

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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.

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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.

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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.

Even Yoon's own supporters say it:

https://japantoday.com/category/world/south-korean-investigators-arrest-impeached-president-yoon1

Throngs of those protesters gathered before dawn in sub-zero temperatures, some wrapped in foil blankets and others waving flags bearing "Stop the Steal" slogans referring to Yoon's unsubstantiated claims of election fraud - one of the reasons he gave to justify his short-lived martial law declaration.

Some of Yoon's supporters have drawn parallels with his plight and that of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who also claimed voter fraud contributed to his election defeat in 2020 but recovered to make a stunning political comeback.

"It is very sad to see our country falling apart," said Kim Woo-sub, a 70-year-old retiree protesting Yoon's arrest outside his residence on Wednesday.

"I still have high expectations for Trump to support our president. Election fraud is something they have in common but also the U.S. needs South Korea to fight China," he said.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who took office last October, has expressed his hope that momentum can be maintained to improve ties long fraught with difficulties stemming from Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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.

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Korean not like Japanese leaders are held accountable,only the insecure worried

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