Japan and South Korea show enduring rift over sexual slavery issue in letters to UN
Seoul, South Korea (AP) – Japan’s government defended his stance on Monday War time sexual slavery And after criticizing the UN Inspectors for finding and compensation for the victims of Tokyo, they defined the decisions of the South Korean Court, who ordered Japanese compensation as a violation of international law.
With his own response to the UN human rights rapporteurs, South Korea called Japan to ün confront the square with our painful history ve and stated that Tokyo’s refusal to obey the court decisions refused to pay for the victims. The statements emphasized how the two Asian US allies still have basic differences on the issue even when they stopped their ten-crime disputes on historical complaints. Stabilize bilateral relationships.
In July, a group of UN Inspector sent letters to Japan and South Korea, to the Eastern Timor, where the victims of China, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Netherlands and the victims of sexual slavery, to the countries that the countries described as “providing truth, justice, remedy and repentance for survival”. It was given 60 days to respond to governments, but only answers from Japan and South Korea were published on a UN website on Monday.
The UN inspectors asked Japan to deal with various concerns, including the inadequate investigations and compensation of sexual slavery, which continued to escape the state and legal responsibility and refused to order compensation for victims from 2021 to 2025.
Japan responded by repeating its long -standing position when all compensation was important with South Korea. Sexual slavery victims settled by Past agreements, 1965 Treaty Normalization Relations and Separate 2015 agreement aimed to solve their differences.
The Japanese statement, published by the permanent mission in Geneva, called for the decisions of the last Korean court to violate the principle of state immunity in such cases, and to “take appropriate measures to violate international law as a country”.
In the past years, the government of Japan, Tokyo and Japanese companies to the victims of Korean sexual slavery and at the same time II. Before the end of World War II, the South Korean Court strongly rejected the decisions of Korea’s ruthless colonial rule, which was another heritage, forced to make it compulsory. Japan said that decisions violated the dominant immunity of the decisions and opposed the 1965 Treaty. The South Korean courts claim that the dominant immunity does not protect the foreign states against crimes against humanity or for wrong actions against their citizens on the territory of South Korea.
After Japan refused to comply with court decisions, some South Korean experts and survivors Lee Yong-Soo, He called on Tokyo and Seoul to jointly direct sexual slavery disagreements to the UN’s International Court of Justice, but no action has been taken yet.
Historians say that tens of thousands of women from all over Asia have been sent to the front military brothels to provide sex to Korean, Japanese soldiers. During the 2015 agreement, 46 of 239 women who registered as a victim to the Seoul government were still living in South Korea, but now there are only 6.
Japan regretted his sexual slavery over and over again. In 1995, the Japanese authorities conducted a study on the practice and before the end of 2007, the Philippines created a fund of special contributions to compensate for their victims in South Korea and Taiwan. Many South Koreli believe that Tokyo’s previous statements and actions do not accept legal responsibility, and later Japan later believes that Japan predicted later, then Japan predicted later.
The relations between South Korea and Japan have been frequently stretched on historical issues in the past years, but the two countries have recently taken more active steps to repair ties while strengthening their three -sided cooperation with the United States to address increasing regional challenges. North Korean nuclear threat.
In August, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung visited Tokyo with a rare diplomatic installation that underlined Trump’s global trade and US security commitments just before flying to Washington for a summit with President Donald Trump.
