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A THREAD on South Korea and Japan.
1. "A major roadblock to reconciliation is the wartime forced labor issue. It came to the fore after South Korea's Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that Japanese firms should compensate aging victims of forced labor during... https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20201116008100325?section=national/diplomacy
1. "A major roadblock to reconciliation is the wartime forced labor issue. It came to the fore after South Korea's Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that Japanese firms should compensate aging victims of forced labor during... https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20201116008100325?section=national/diplomacy
/2...Tokyo's colonization of the Korean Peninsula. Tokyo claims all reparation issues stemming from its occupation were settled under a 1965 treaty that normalized bilateral ties; Seoul argues it cannot meddle in the judicial decisions." TRUE. But there's much more to the story.
/3 "Declassified documents from the CIA show that the treaty, which brought Japan back to the Korean Peninsula for the first time since 1945, was largely the work of the USA. US pressure on Seoul to reopen ties with Tokyo intensified after the Korean War. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/south-korea-japan-cold-war/
/4...when US military planners and aid officials concluded that Korea would remain divided & that the South’s only chance for survival lay with its former colonizer." I wrote this history @thenation based on docs from the National Archives/NARA. Strangely, my dad knew this guy.
