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In South Korea, there’s a lot of folks who are already saying this deal doesn’t go far enough. And I had one source say that President Park will, quote, \”get lots of love from D.C. for this\” but that the money itself for the fund – \$8 million – isn’t that much and that the … Read more
The first comfort women didn’t actually come forward until 1992, and since then, the issue has really been kicked up. Japan issued a 1993 acknowledgement on this. It’s called the Kono Agreement. But in recent years, South Korea has been wanting an apology to go much further. Elise Hu
Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn’t included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about. Elise Hu
Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it’s been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen – that’s about 8 million U.S. … Read more
South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test. Elise Hu
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. … The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to … Read more
President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He’s going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate. David Letterman
[Donald Trump] said that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals to lower U.S. costs, and then has denied that he would encourage nuclear proliferation to allies (although he did say so). David Krieger
We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off – what – twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from … Read more
Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady’s glasses. Conan O’Brien