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Kishida unclear about holding formal summit with S Korea

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There should be no formal meeting until te Yoon adnministration can put forward an actual plan to resolve the South Korean Court ruling on te forced labor issue. One way is for SK to agree to the Arbitration Clause in the 1965 Treaty to establish whether the SK Courts have any jurisdiction over the matter. Another would be for both nations to settle the matter at the ICJ.

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You have my vote.

The last part the ICJ, SKorea will need to open up the 1965 agreement and read it out loud to the world. Koreans don't want to do that. They don't want to read the agreement they signed in Full in front of the world!

Going by Korean logic, the 1965 agreement doesn't cover anything in 2022!!

The moment Korea detected weakness and willingness to pay again for Comfort Women in 2015...... It was only a matter of time before they complain about force labor, also not being covered. Or not enough. Or not sincere for the Korean.

We keep giving ammunition for Korea to play it's Squid Games on repeat!

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There should be no formal meeting until te Yoon adnministration can put forward an actual plan to resolve the South Korean Court ruling on te forced labor issue.

The Korean foreign minister already explained the proposed plan to Hayashi. It's now up to Japan to announce they will accept or reject it and let liquidation proceed.

1) Japanese companies, not Japanese state, issue written apology to the victims.

2) Said Japanese companies must contribute into a joint compensation fund to be funded by other willing companies from both Japan and Korea.

If Japan refuses, then the asset liquidation is inevitable. Don't expect Yoon to be able to stop the liquidation, there is nothing he can do unless the victims agree and those are two terms issued by the victim's lawyers and won't compromise.

The Japanese wish that some kind of intervention bill is passed isn't possible because the Parliament is controlled by the supermajority of the Democratic party, which wants the liquidation to proceed.

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