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Samit Basu
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1) People don't understand why Yoon is trying to commit a political suicide and burn down the whole diplomatic scene with it, but Yoon's office claimed that the 2018 Supreme Court ruling was wrong from the Japanese perspective and he had to intervene. This is basically pouring oil onto the fire of mass public outrage.
2) And insulting the Supreme Court doesn't help Yoon's argument when the asset liquidation trial resumes.
3) A survey of leading law professors concluded Yoon's proposed debt swap plan was not legally possible, there is no way to stop the liquidation of seized assets when the plaintiffs doesn't want it, the nature of debt(punitive damages on criminal actions of the defendants) doesn't allow such swab and it's even spelled out in the law. What Yoon's proposing is like a guy who was sentenced to 5 years in prison swap his prison sentence with another substitute who goes to prison on the convict's behalf. It doesn't work like that.
4) So if the plaintiffs insist on liquidation of seized Japanese assets, they will get it. And then what happens?
5) From the looks of it, Yoon's regime may collapse faster than Park's. The public opposition is much much stronger than the comfort women agreement.
socrateos
He is on the right track.
deanzaZZR
Japan and South Korea currently have a strategic partnership? The "further bolster" phrase seems to be indicating this.
ReasonandWisdomNippon
It's easy to understand Yoon decisions if you care about South Korea existence, survival, Korean War 2.0 is real and possible, especially after what Russia just did to Ukraine.
Yoon had no other options on the table, it was either this or nothing! No options to humiliate Japan more existed, with Japan approval at least. (See, I get it, S.Korea has been spoiled for decades with apologies and compensation on demand).... Koreans are so confused, why can't this go on Forever!
Korean saying is"Japanese aggressor doesnt Decide when it's over", Translation?? We will never give up on historical issues, no apology is good enough, no compensation enough until we say Yes, not just one time, but as many times as Korean victim hood mentality requires.
Comfort Woman agreement, 70% of women supported that deal, yet in 2017 under Moon, that wasn't enough anymore either. It don't matter the approval rating, Korea will always play Squid Games on repeat if you allow them too!
obladi
To make friends, find a common enemy.
Michael Machida
Peace.
Mark
Gotta love that hair style, Unique.
Donald Seekins
I doubt that Yoon's agreement with Japan will "stick." Thanks largely to Tokyo's cold and stingy attitude concerning its war crimes, South Koreans are outraged by any concession to their former colonizer.
OssanAmerica
False. Japan has agreed to and abided by every request South Korea has made regarding the CWs and Forced Labor. As for "War Crimes" they've already been charged, tried and convicted at the Tokyo Trials.
The "outraged" South Koreans today are Acivists and lawyers who will lose their bread and butter, "witnesses" that are used by the them, and the younger people who have been ingrained with the anti-JPN education that has taken root since the 1990s.
Actually not a bad idea considering that there are many Koreans enshrined there, including many class B and C War Criminals.
OssanAmerica
The US, South Korea and Japan have met to resolve this issue 40 times over the last year, The US welcomes it, Japan welcomes it and the South Korea welcomes it. Excluding the anti-JPN faction that has steered South Korea's polittical and diplomatic direction. It is high time that the South Korean government took back control from this minority whose actions only benefit North Korea, China and Russia by obstructing the US-SK-JPN security policy.
Joe Blow
Exactly, a noisy minority that are probably in Xi's pocket. They'll find one ancient professor in Japan who thinks comfort women weren't so bad and then act like all of Japan holds that belief and the two countries have fractured ties lol
Samit Basu
@ReasonandwisdomNippon
And be over in 2 weeks. The ROK and the US are drilling for that 2 week conquest of North Korea scenario right now.
In case you are not aware, Korea actually sells protection to other countries willing to pay. UAE has Korea's protection and Saudi Arabia was willing to pay $100 billion for it too. Moon said no to Saudi bid, but the liberals are scared Yoon might sell Korea's protection to Saudi Arabia for $100 billion worth of weapon sales and training.
https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/risky-business-south-koreas-secret-military-deal-with-uae/
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Of course Yoon could always declare the whole negotiation a failure, that was the recommendation of his advisors. None of his advisors wanted this deal because of almost certain massive public backlash, but Yoon supposedly laughed off that it didn't matter if his poll dropped to 1%, he didn't have another election to run. But that's not the case for the ruling party's parliamentary members who face a blood bath at the next election.
There exists one; let the court liquidate Japanese assets.
There is no such Korean saying.
@Donald Seekins
It's already dead on arrival, because the forced laborers already rejected the deal and will continue with the asset liquidation. Yoon's plan isn't legally binding and can't stop the court liquidation process.
@OssanJapan
Well, Korea asked Japanese defendant companies to issue apology letters and contribute into the compensation fund(Not necessarily full amount, just 10% of verdict was enough), Abe and Kishida said no. So the asset liquidation process resumes.
Well, that anti-Japan faction of Korea happens to be 64% of general population according to polls and 62% of the parliament, in other word the supermajority of Korean population and parliament.
The so-called Korean government is the minority, backed by 23% of the population according to the polls. His party has 38% of the seats in the parliament.
@Awa No Gaijin
Actually there was a wonderful time from 2000 toward the end of the Democratic party of Japan rule in December 2012. Things were so good that Japan and Korea considered buying weapons from each other, Korea buying OH-1 Ninja helicopters from Japan and Japan buying new build KAAV-7 from Korea.
elephant200
Yoon will goto jail after his presidency and that "Wartime settling plan" will be a political time bomb to explode until then. Not ever a single right wing president of that country ever had a good ending. This not a curse but the history of South Korea marked that!
OssanAmerica
That's only because you are too young to know/remember SK-JPN relations 1945-1990.
xin xin
SK is hijacked by a few determined spoilers who adroitly manipulated the nationalist gene.
Seth M
South Korea has been cursed with nationalism lunacy and Mr.Yoon is brave to fix this problem. Japan should make sure this gentleman have a peaceful life after his presidency