South Korean civic teams protest Japanese PM’s go to

Students protest with banners in entrance of the presidential workplace in Seoul, South Korea, May 7, 2023. /CFP

Representatives from a number of South Korean civic teams rallied over the weekend in entrance of the presidential workplace and metropolis heart of Seoul to protest Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s two-day go to to Seoul.

Kishida arrived in South Korea on Sunday and held talks with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol.

During the protest, demonstrators chanted slogans and held indicators with messages resembling “Japan must apologize for forced labor,” “Condemn the discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water into the sea,” “Oppose South Korea-U.S.-Japan military cooperation,” and “Condemn the Yoon government’s humiliating diplomacy towards Japan.”

Representatives of the civic teams additionally delivered speeches expressing their dissatisfaction with the Japanese authorities’s angle in direction of previous aggression and the Yoon authorities’s overseas coverage in direction of the U.S. and Japan.

The protesters demanded that Japan resist its previous, apologize sincerely for historic points resembling compelled labor and “comfort women,” and compensate the victims and their households.

When the Japanese authorities has not proven a corresponding angle, the South Korean authorities has accelerated the development of South Korea-Japan relations, which is humiliating diplomacy, they added. 

“Should Japan become a shameless country that has committed illegal crimes and does not know how to reflect on it, or should it admit colonial and war crimes, continue to apologize and compensate for history, and become a mature country? The Japanese government must make a choice,” a consultant stated. 

In addition to historic points, the demonstrators additionally expressed their opposition to the Japanese authorities’s determination to discharge nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant into the ocean.

They additionally opposed the rising diplomatic ties and cooperation between South Korea, Japan, and the U.S., which they imagine will not be conducive to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and will even put the area susceptible to warfare.

The civic teams on the rally introduced that demonstrations could be held concurrently in a number of areas of Seoul and that protests would proceed in entrance of South Korea’s presidential workplace throughout Kishida’s go to.

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Source: CGTN