Negotiations between comfort women, the situation of Judge Yeon-yeon and President Moon are directly in question – Chosun.com

On the subject of comfort women, there is no need to add to the story of Prime Minister Abe and former President Park Geun-hye. Prime Minister Abe took the general right of Japanese society on his back and withdrew significantly from the previous regime on the issue of comfort women. We are not prepared to apologize for the problem of women’s comfort and to make national reparations. President Park’s “Korea-Japan Comfort Women Agreement 2015” brought only increased reaction from victims. You may have thought about ending the women’s comfort problem, but the result was just the opposite. The president must speak as a result, not as an excuse.

As of May 2020, the problem remains the task of President Moon Jae-in. The controversy over Lee Yong-soo’s grandmother and the Jeongui Memory Regiment also sparked the process of neglecting and abandoning the comfort women issue. The controversy over Eui-Yeon Jeong’s donation or Lee’s grandmother’s “changing memories” problem is clearly a topic to cover up. However, even if this problem goes beyond one phase, other years later, another Yongsu-su grandmother will arise and another Jeong-yeon Yeon-related problem will occur. If there is nothing to expect from Prime Minister Abe, President Moon should be more aggressive.

During the 2017 presidential election, Moon pledged to renegotiate the “Women of Comfort Agreement.” He said he would reach an agreement that the victims would admit and that people would agree. In a statement in December 2017, the first year of the inauguration, President Moon said: “It is clear that the problem of women’s comfort cannot be solved by an agreement between Korea and Japan.” He then instructed: “The government must follow up as soon as possible under the principle of victim-centered resolution and diplomacy with the public.”

On January 4, 2018, Moon had a lunch with eight victims, including grandmother Lee Yong-soo and Yoon Mi-hyang as the Blue House. At that time, Grandmother Lee Yong-soo said, “It was frustrating and sad as if I was pretending every day since the December 28, 2015 deal. But the President made a clear statement that the deal was wrong and my heart was sore and grateful to have cried that day. “He continued:” It seems to be a burden for the President to try in many ways, but this problem must be resolved. “President Moon said:” Not only was the previous government agreement not only inconsistent with the principles of truth and justice, but that the contents and procedures that the government unilaterally followed without listening to the grandmothers’ opinions were wrong. “It was interpreted as suggestive renegotiation. However, when President Moon Jung met with Prime Minister Abe in September 2018, he said, “I will not break the consolation agreement or require renegotiation.”

Not that we can’t understand President Moon’s concerns. Regardless of whether the content is correct or not, the unilateral destruction of the agreement between the two countries is directly related to the issue of trust between the countries. However, the comfort women agreement between Korea and Japan is floating in the air, without destruction, renegotiation or anything that has effective meaning. It can be rewritten, but is not officially abandoned. It simply became the rancor of the comforting women’s grandmothers, the target of the comforting women’s support group, and became the ‘task’ for President Moon.

The Korean Bar Association released a statement this year and urged the government to take active measures to solve the problem of Japanese comfort women. “The 2015 agreement was confirmed to be a politically non-binding political agreement,” he said on December 27 of last year. “The government does not ask to revoke or renegotiate because the agreement is an official agreement between Korea and Japan,” he said. “We urge the government to take active measures to recover victims from the comfort of women.”

Once destroyed, a new construction is required. However, President Moon has neutralized the government comfort women agreement, but that does not mean that the comfort women grandmothers want to agree. Meanwhile, the grandmothers of the comfort women passed away, and this is the case of justice, and the relationship between Korea and Japan continues to be tangled on the issue of recruitment and export retaliation. President Moon and the Blue House are in no condition to see this grandmother, Yoon Mi-hyang, and Jung-yeon Jung with folded arms. The president should not speak as criticism, but as result and result. Are you going to pass this task on to the next government? The term now remains two years.