On the anniversary of Japan's World War Two surrender, South Korea's p...
SEOUL/TOKYO - On the anniversary of Japan’s World War Two surrender, South Korea’s president on Thursday urged Japan to contemplate its wartime past and offered to engage in talks to repair strained ties, while Japan pledged to never repeat the horrors of war.
“We hope that Japan will play a leading role together in facilitating peace and prosperity in East Asia while it contemplates a past that brought misfortune to its neighboring countries,” Moon said in a nationally televised address. “To create a peaceful new era full of hope, we will spare no effort in working with the international community,” Abe said.Bilateral relations deteriorated after South Korea’s Supreme Court last year ordered Japanese companies to compensate some wartime forced laborers. Tokyo says the matter was settled by a 1965 treaty normalizing ties.
Strained ties between the two key U.S. allies have threatened security cooperation in the face of North Korea’s threat and China’s rise, worrying Washington. “I am bitter and furious just thinking about the hardship I went through when I was in Japan,” said Lee Choon-shik, 95, who was forced to work for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd in 1941 at age 17.
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