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Showing posts with label South Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Korea. Show all posts
July 12, 2015
Foreign Service Updates - Middle East, Africa, Kosovo, Turkey, USA
March 11, 2015
FOREIGN SERVICE UPDATES
 Anti Benjamin Netanyahu protest: 35,000 Ditch Ron Dermer Venezuela demand: = abt 10 death row prisoners to finish legal appeals before setting a date for executions http://www.echo.net.au/2015/03/sukumaran-paints-jokowi-portrait/ Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between #EU & #KoreaSouth is in effect-- Said it before and I'll say it again: look how buddied up the Swedes are with the US, standing in for the US in negotiations with North Korea. |
July 23, 2014
Japan - UN HRC - 'Hate Speech' Legislation
| Japanese officials order removal of war memorial for Korean labourers Petitions complained that monument erected by a friendship society in a public park in Gunma prefecture was anti-Japanese Justin McCurry in Tokyo theguardian.com, Wednesday 23 July 2014 20.22 AEST
Local authorities in Japan have demanded the removal of a monument in memory of the tens of thousands of labourers forcibly recruited from the Korean peninsula during the second world war. [...] Many of the 600,000 ethnic Koreans living in Japan are the descendants of labourers who remained in the country after its defeat in 1945. | Commemorating the use of forced labour is causing similar controversy in other parts of Japan. In Nagasaki, a row has erupted over a proposed monument to Korean victims of the atomic bombing ... The controversies are being played out against a rise in anti-Korean sentiment in Japan, fuelled by disputes between Tokyo and Seoul over territory and Japan's conduct during its 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula. The UN human rights committee has called on Japan to do more to clamp down on hate speech directed at Koreans during demonstrations in Tokyo and other cities. The committee, which noted that there were more than 360 such demonstrations and speeches last year, mainly in Korean neighbourhoods in Tokyo, is expected to make recommendations to Japan on Wednesday, possibly including the introduction of legislation against hate speech. ... officials from both countries met in Seoul to discuss Japan's use of as many as 200,000 mainly Korean and Chinese women as sex slaves before and during the war. Japan recently ruled out a revision to a 1993 official apology... The prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is one of several prominent conservative politicians who have questioned claims that the imperial Japanese army coerced the women – euphemistically referred to as comfort women – into working in frontline brothels. Source - The Guardian - here. |
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COMMENT
It's supposed to be commemorative but it's not merely commemorative; it's a political statement also -- even if that's not the intention.
Political or commemorative, it shouldn't matter.
But it's obviously rocking the boat over in Japan.
Even so, the anti 'hate speech' legislation proposed by the UN is legislation to silence disapproval.
But isn't that kind of like trying to legislate to produce an altered perception of reality?
July 22, 2014
NORTH KOREAN ROCKETS - SAREX - JAPAN DROPS OVERSEAS COMBAT BAN
Japan, South Korea, U.S. begin search and rescue exerciseKyodo |
Japan Times article also said that North Korea has been firing rockets and missiles into the sea, raising tensions in the area.
Finally, the article mentions abduction of Japanese citizens.
Current news story on the subject elsewhere:
Pyongyang abductee probe stirs speculation of early Japan pollTue Jul 15, 2014 |
"SAREX is a search and rescue military exercise of the US military forces with other nations" - [pics here].
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COMMENT
Island of Jeju is island southwards of South Korea.
As a newbie, hard to say what the drills are for.
US, South Korea and Japan are probably working on the cooperation and skills building side of things; and maybe it's also a morale building exercise.
Imagine North Korea might be aware of the presence of the trio, so it could also be about making their presence known in the region.
Or it could just be drills. LOL.
Funny how emotive issues help raise the stocks of politicians the world over.
What's disturbing is that Japan has DROPPED A BAN that has kept military from FIGHTING ABROAD.
That's big.
Wonder if there's anticipated conflict either in that region or in the South China Sea region.
Again, I've only just started watching this stuff, so I could be right off base speculating in that direction.
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