SEOUL, June 1 (Xinhua) — Despite a “superficially” nearer relationship with Japan, South Korea’s pleasant gesture met with solely chilly reception from its japanese neighbor and protests from its personal individuals.
South Korea despatched a 21-member crew to Japan final week on a mission which, based on South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, can be an essential alternative to “check all the information” on Japan’s deliberate discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Tokyo disagreed.
Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura denied the remarks the next day, saying the South Korean crew won’t consider or affirm the protection of the wastewater.
On Thursday, Song Ki-hun, deputy ground chief of South Korea’s principal opposition Democratic Party, mentioned it was an “insipid” inspection of the contaminated water discharge services, not of the contaminated water itself straight affecting the protection of individuals.
Also, Seoul and Tokyo dreamed totally different desires in regards to the worldwide standing of South Korea.
Yun Duk-min, South Korean ambassador to Japan, mentioned in Tokyo final week that Seoul needed to grow to be a member of what may very well be the Group of Eight by becoming a member of the Group of Seven (G7).
However, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida mentioned in an interview with South Korean newspaper Joongang Ilbo final month that there had been no dialogue of accelerating the membership throughout the G7.
South Korea had grow to be a “psychological” G8 nation, mentioned a spokesman of the nation’s ruling People Power Party, relating to President Yoon Suk-yeol’s attendance on the G7 summit as a visitor final month.
Earlier this week, a Japanese warship entered South Korea’s southeastern port metropolis of Busan for a multinational naval drill close to the southern resort island of Jeju.
The warship arrived right here with the so-called Rising Sun flag hoisted. Although the South Korean authorities went as far as to defend the militaristic historical past of Japan, the transfer triggered harsh criticism because it symbolizes Japan’s previous militarism.
The Korean Peninsula was colonized by Japan from 1910 to 1945.
Yoo Jung-ju of the Democratic Party denounced the historic notion of the Yoon authorities and the ruling occasion as they didn’t take challenge with it, saying Busan was a bridgehead for Japan’s invasion of the peninsula.
Rapping the South Korean protection ministry’s echoing the Japanese stance that the present flag is totally different from what was the Rising Sun flag, the lawmaker famous that the ministry reasonably sided with the image of invasion coming into Busan.
Civic activists gathered close to the Japanese consulate in Busan to protest in opposition to the arrival of the Japanese warship, in addition to wartime points similar to intercourse slavery and compelled labor, which had been “kind of” solved because of the South Korean authorities’s compromises.
People of the Korean Peninsula had been pressured by Japan into intercourse servitude for navy brothels and heavy labor with out pay earlier than and through World War II.
The activists demanded that Japan ought to fulfill its obligations with its acknowledgment, compensation and honest apology for the battle crimes in opposition to humanity.