Yun Byung-Se, the South Korean foreign minister, said the deal would be “final and irreversible” as long as Japan fulfilled its responsibilities.
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Under the agreement, Japan apologised and offered a ¥1 billion (S$11.7 million) payment to Korean women who were forced to work as sex slaves.
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He insisted on Tuesday in Taipei that “The Republic of China government has always said that Japan should apologize to Taiwanese “comfort women” and offer compensation to them”.
Kishida also said Abe “expresses anew honest apologies and remorse from the bottom of his heart to all those who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds as ‘comfort women'”.
Another deciding factor was that the $8.3 million – to create a foundation to help provide support for the victims – came from the government, not private sources, something Tokyo has resisted in the past. The “comfort women” have been the most painful legacy of Japan’s colonial rule of Korea, which lasted from 1910 until Japan’s World War II defeat in 1945.
The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the agreement between Japan and South Korea on issues related to so-called “comfort women”.
“We support this agreement and its full implementation”, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in her own statement, driving home the point that Washington does not want to see the issue dredged up by future governments in Seoul or Tokyo.
Why some say this deal is bad for South Korea.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye similarly expressed “that since the two governments worked through a hard process to reach this agreement, they can cooperate closely to start building trust and open a new relationship”.
“The South Korea puppets must put an end to selling out its own people in an act of subservience to Japan”, the statement read. “It’s merely a slapdash unholy alliance between the South Korean and Japanese governments that excludes the victims”, she said. The fact that the comfort women were not directly acknowledged along with Japan’s denial over the years had caused a lot of tension between the neighboring countries.
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Park also said it is “most important for Japan to sincerely and swiftly carry out what has been agreed on to restore the honor and dignity of the victims and heal their mental wounds”.
