South Koreans visit North Korea to complain about Japan
Reuters reports that a South Korean group that visited Pyongyang last week and met with North Korean officials for the “”Inter-Korean forum to oppose Japan’s distorted history and Japan’s manoeuvre to rob Dokdo”:
“The international community is in the midst of change and a number of countries are reflecting on their past inhumane crimes and aggression,” said Lee Hae-hak, a Christian pastor and a former democracy activist who headed the South Korean group.
“Only Japan is going in reverse,” Lee, who also honors South Korean group fighting against Japan’s Yasukuni war shrine seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of its militarism because it honors convicted war criminals, told the Pyongyang seminar.
Nothing takes ones’ mind off the thousands of Koreans dying in Kim Jong-Il’s gulags like some good ol’ fashioned Japan-bashing.
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What a wanker. I wonder how democracy activists fare in North Korea.
How much more confused about Japan are these ultra-nationalist Koreans going to become?
tht is regreetable that Koreans are doing with Japan. They are even joing with the North to get support.
There’s so much more things that the (South) Koreans should do to better their country and people and, possibly, the world. Yet they waste so much time and effort on something like this. And if they have so much to say, why don’t they just bring it to the international commitee and debate it like gentlemen, instead choosing to spread their claim for all the world to see without having Japan give their side of the story.
In a sense, it’s like going behind Japan’s back.
Whether South Korea have legitimate claim to the Liancourt Rocks or not, I dunno, but the way they act and their actions, Korea aggresively overreact and push their claims onto the world. But imo, not is it not convincing, but it just makes Korea look worse in the eyes of the world.
But what even worse is how the Korean claim Tsushima Island and how the koreans treat Tsushima Island and it’s inhabitants. NO RESPECT!
Readers might want to also take a look at Ampontan’s thorough article for additional perspective:
http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/koreas-three-21st-century-invasions-of-japan/