South Korea introduced plans Monday to compensate victims of Japan’s pressured wartime labour, aiming to finish a “vicious cycle” within the Asian powers’ relations and enhance ties to counter the nuclear-armed North.
Japan and the United States instantly welcomed the announcement, however victims have criticised the proposal as a result of it falls far wanting their demand for a full apology from Tokyo and direct compensation from the Japanese corporations concerned.
Seoul and Tokyo have already ramped up safety cooperation within the face of rising threats from Kim Jong Un’s regime, however bilateral ties have lengthy been strained over Tokyo’s brutal 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.
Around 780,000 Koreans have been conscripted into pressured labour by Japan in the course of the 35-year occupation, in accordance with information from Seoul, not together with girls pressured into sexual slavery by Japanese troops.
Seoul’s plan is to take cash from main South Korean corporations that benefited from a 1965 reparations cope with Tokyo and use it to compensate victims, Foreign Minister Park Jin stated.
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