S.Korean president to PARTICIPATE in China's war anniversary

[TaiShang]

S.Korean president to participate in China's war anniversary
2015-8-20 9:47:14

South Korean President Park Geun-hye will visit China next month to participate in the celebratory event to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Thursday.

Ju Chul-ki, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs, told a press briefing that Park will make a trip to China for three days from Sept. 2 to attend the celebratory event set to be held in Beijing on Sept. 3.

Park will attend the celebratory event in the morning on Sept. 3, but it has yet to be decided on whether Park will take part in the Sept. 3 military parade.

China has scheduled a series of events for the war victory anniversary, culminating in a military parade on Sept. 3 in Beijing.

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Reader Comment: "S. Korea regaining the prominence and recognition by having a strong, tough, independent lady President Park. She has put her country S. Korea to the best of national interests to the country and people, rather than to kowtow to USA pressure and interference not to join China's AIIB and Beijing 70th victory celebration held Sept. 3rd.,2015. After all, S. Korea, N. Korea have been attacked, occupied and ruled by Japan for 35 years and victimized country like China and many S. E. Asian countries. China as main battleground with allies U.S., Russia defeated Japanese fascist aggression in WW2. China and S. Korea relationship is firm and strong. Beijing 70th. anniversary victory parade would be a grand celebration. China welcomes S. Korea President Park to China."

@Chinese-Dragon , @cirr , @Keel , @Jlaw, @terranMarine , @Beidou2020 , @rcrmj , @cnleio , etal.

 

[cirr]

Too bad President Park is barred by law from seeking a 2nd term in office otherwise she will win the vast majority of votes casted by over 2 million South Koreans residing in Mainland China。

 

[opruh]

Good to see Abe-san being isolated, that's what you get for being a puppet.

 

[xunzi]

Country who respect history will come and celebrate. It is that simple.

 

[Tractor]

S.Korean president？Seems no need to be mentioned whether as a woman or a President for her country no need to be known.

Country who respect history will come and celebrate. It is that simple.

All countries respect history man made respectively.

 

[xunzi]

All countries respect history man made respectively.

There is a certain country who is a revisionist trying to paint a different history. I'll let you use your brain to figure that out.

 

[TaiShang]

The presence of the ROK is very important as Korea suffered under 50 years of Japanese colonial rule and shared many similar experiences as did China.

 

[Jlaw]

Too bad President Park is barred by law from seeking a 2nd term in office otherwise she will win the vast majority of votes casted by over 2 million South Koreans residing in Mainland China。

Why are these south koreans (I'm assuming Chinese citizens) can still vote in S Korea election?

 

[cirr]

Why are these south koreans (I'm assuming Chinese citizens) can still vote in S Korea election?

They are NOT Chinese citizens。

They are South Koreans pure and simple and they always go back to vote for their respective preferred presidential candidate，same with our Taiwanese sisters and brothers in Mainland。

 

[Keel]

These pix were showing what had happened when a statue of a comfort woman was established in Glendale CA - the first in the west coast of USA



Glendale unveils "comfort women" statue
By Susan Abram, Staff Writer
POSTED: 07/30/2013 09:15:53 PM PD
Glendale unveils "comfort women" statue - ContraCostaTimes.com

A statue honoring the "comfort women" of WWII is unveiled in Glendale on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. (David Crane/Staff Photographer)


Bok-Dong Kim, a former sex slave during WWII at the unveiling of a statue honoring the "comfort women" of WWII in Glendale on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. (David Crane/Staff Photographer)


She was once like the teenage girl now immortalized in bronze, dressed in Korean attire who sits still and silent, with clenched fists on her lap and her feet bare.

For Bok-dong Kim and others once like her, the new bronze statue unveiled in Glendale on Tuesday symbolizes two moments of their lives: when they were "comfort women" -- a euphemism for the 200,000 mostly Korean women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. And when their stories became acknowledged, and victims of sexual slavery could come out from the shadows of silence and shame, to tell their stories freely.

"I am grateful and very appreciative," said Kim, 88, through an interpreter. "I cannot express my thanks."

The Glendale City Council approved the monument earlier this month, over the objections of some Japanese-Americans who said during council meetings that comfort women did not exist or their stories were exaggerated. But historians have said that 200,000 women and girls -- mostly Koreans, but also Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipina and Dutch (from the then-Dutch colony of Indonesia) -- were rounded up and forced into brothels where they were raped by Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese government issued a formal apology in 1993, but some within the Korean community have said there was a lack of sincerity.

Council members called the memorial a "peace statue," meant to forge solidarity with Glendale and its sister cities in South Korea. The Korean American Forum of California, a nonprofit human rights organization, funded and built the memorial unveiled Tuesday in a park near the Glendale Public Library.

The memorial depicts a girl in traditional Korean costume sitting on a chair, and from head to toe, she is a symbol: from her fists that represent her resolve for justice to her bare feet which mean she was abandoned by a cold, unsympathetic world. It is a replica of one installed by Korean civic leaders directly across the street from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, where surviving comfort women have held a protest every Wednesday for 21 years.

"We had a lot of pressure at City Hall and hundreds and hundred of emails opposed to this," said Glendale City Councilwoman Laura Friedman.

But in the end, the council agreed 4-1 that Glendale would become the first city on the West Coast to install a memorial to comfort women.


"The city of Glendale stands united with the Korean community and with sexual victims," Friedman added.

For Councilman Zareh Sinanyan, who is of Armenian descent, the memorial represents the importance of acknowledging man's inhumanity to man. The grandson of survivors of the Armenian genocide -- which the Turkish government continues to deny was a genocide but which resulted in the deaths of more than a million people, including Greeks and Assyrians -- Sinanyan said the lack of acknowledgement means the wounds inflicted on his people remain.

"I'm very happy we're taking this step to heal a deep wound to Korean women," Sinanyan said. "I understand the pain the victims have undergone."

And many from the Japanese community applauded Glendale's decision.

U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, a Japanese-American, expressed support for the proposed memorial in Glendale. And Kathy Masaoka, of the Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, said during the unveiling that Japan must apologize again and make reparations.

Korean artist Bok Lim Kim said the bronze memorial offers a broader, universal meaning.

"Every girl has dreams," she said. "Dreams of happiness, of peace and of freedom."

susan.abram@dailynews.com @sabramLA on Twitter


And then on the Japanese' side:

Read the banner and the placard of the Japanese protestors against the statute on its unveiling day

This captured image from cable channel YTN shows Japanese lawmakers protesting to pull down a statue honoring victims of sexual slavery in a park in Glendale, Los Angeles, California on Friday.

The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition): Daily News from Korea - U.S. Senate Urges Kerry to Act on 'Comfort Women'






Let the movement continue until the jpnese right wings surrender like their imperialist war criminal ancestors

 

[Keel]

 

[TaiShang]

Is he serious? My!

 

[rcrmj]

Is he serious? My!

because he is a right-wing brainwashed Japanese

 

[TaiShang]

President Park’s China trip a logical choice
2015-8-21 0:03:01


Seoul announced Thursday that South Korean President Park Geun-hye will visit China from September 2 to 4 and will participate in the commemoration that marks the 70th anniversary of victory in China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression as well as the World Anti-Fascist War. Park and the South Korean government have made the right decision.

The Blue House also expressed that it is not yet determined whether Park will attend the military parade on the morning of September 3. Zhang Liangui, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, considers it a strategic gesture made by Seoul of visiting China at the "right time."

It is reasonable and logical for Park to attend China's anniversary event. Public opinion polls in South Korea indicate that the number of people who support Park to do so is more than two times that of those who do not. On September 3, her appearance at Tiananmen Square with many other state leaders is likely to happen.

China has sufficient moral reasons to hold this military parade. Some from the outside world are speculating about Beijing's intentions beyond what's been proclaimed. However, their thoughts can only be spread at the bottom of the public opinion field, which can never be raised on the diplomatic table.

So far, not one single official from major countries in the world, including Japan, has publicly accused China of having "impure purposes" over the parade. Even if there might be some Western leaders absent from the event, they have or will either avoid public comment over the issue, or figure out a reason acceptable for both countries.

The military parade will show China's historical responsibility, as well as the spirit of Chinese modern society. It has nothing to do with geopolitical games.

Some Japanese always believe that Beijing's parade is aimed at Tokyo. Put bluntly, those Japanese have flattered themselves. It would be a self-deprecation for China's national rejuvenation if the parade is directed against Japan.

Rising peacefully is the firm will of all Chinese society. Given the era that is full of complexity, we have felt the difficulty of letting certain members of the international community understand our good faith and determination. We have realized that it is bound to be a tortuous process, and we have prepared enough patience to properly handle the issues.

Tokyo should be at ease. The parade is absolutely not aimed at making Sino-Japanese relations trickier. On the contrary, the mainstream wish of Chinese society is to take this opportunity of the 70th anniversary of the end of the war to promote reconciliation between the two sides, rather than increasing antagonism.

Nor does China have the intention of showing its military muscle to the world by displaying new weapons through the parade. All these years, China would rather hope the outside world underestimate its strength, instead of overestimating it. This philosophy will not be abruptly changed on September 3.

Park's decision to come reflects South Korea's rational understanding of China's military parade.

Other world leaders, regardless of whether they attend Beijing's event or not, should find some inspiration from Seoul's logic.

 

[cnleio]

Between Japan and China, S.Korea did a good choose ... I think China could support a unified Korea but condition is USA kicked out from Korean Peninsula, BeiJing should give a clear message to Seoul.