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Citizens stop in front of the ‘Girl of Peace’ in Berlin, Germany, and read an inscription on the 9th (local time). It is a sculpture to commemorate the victims of the comforting Japanese military women, but the city authorities ordered the demolition. [AP=연합뉴스]
As city authorities ordered the demolition of the ‘Peace Girl’ in Berlin, the German capital, the issue of establishing a statue of a girl abroad is emerging as a problem again. It is an observation that Japan’s desperate diplomacy ate into the request for the removal of the girl’s statue, as Germany had a tacit recognition in the international community that it should take more active action on the human rights of women and the punishment of war crimes due to the past, which was a war criminal state in WWII. On the 7th, Mitte-gu’s office in Berlin sent a letter to Korea Verband, a civic organization that led the installation of the girl’s statue, calling for the demolition of “If he is not voluntarily demolished by the 14th, he will be executed. and accused “. The statue of this girl was erected on the 25th of last month at the intersection of Birken and Bremer streets in the Mitte district, Berlin, and the inauguration ceremony was held on the 28th of last month. It was the first case in Germany where a statue of a girl was erected in a public place.
Sankei “Japan, Eui-yeon, Eui-yeon counting misconduct
Underwater contact with governments and local governments of Japan and Germany
Convinced of the conflict between Korea and Japan, not of human rights
“Eui-Yeon Jeong’s affairs affect history and diplomacy”
The installation of the statue of the girl abroad was installed in a row in Glendale, near Los Angeles, in the United States, and Annandale, Virginia, with the intention of preventing war crimes against women and reporting the damage suffered by Japanese military women solace during the period. However, on December 28, 2018, the ‘Niña de la Paz’, which settled in San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines, was demolished on the 30th of that month, two days after its installation, and this time, as the Berlin city authorities demanded its removal, the installation of the girl’s statue is struggling everywhere. . In the case of the city of San Pedro in the Philippines, when the Japanese embassy in the Philippines applied diplomatic pressure, saying: “It is very regrettable that it contradicts the position of the Japanese government,” the city authorities decided to dismantle it. The statue of the girl, located in Annandale, Virginia, was installed at a site provided by a Korean building owner after struggling to secure public spaces under Japanese pressure.
Once again, with the Berlin Girl Award, the Japanese government has taken a step forward in comprehensive diplomacy. Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu (茂木 敏 充) requested the removal of the girl’s statue in a phone call with German Foreign Minister Heiko Mas on 1 this month and the Japanese embassy in Germany he also sent a request to the Berlin authorities to remove it. The Japanese government tried to turn the girls’ image problem into a diplomatic showdown between Korea and Japan, rather than a human rights issue for the comfort women victims.
According to the Sankei Shimbun, Japan has also explained allegations of accounting misconduct by the Justice Memory Coalition, which has supported the production of a statue of a girl while participating in underwater diplomatic wars with Berlin city authorities. The Sankei Shimbun stated that “suspicion of opaque accounting prosecution has been raised and strict attention is being paid at home and abroad,” and expressed the accounting fraud incident as “the enemy’s fault.” Lee Won-deok, a professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at Kookmin University, noted that “Jeong Eui-yeon’s accounting corruption affects historical Korean-Japanese diplomacy and is facing a counterattack.” Not only the Korean government, but also the Japanese government must think calmly. ”
Reporter Lee Yoo-jung, Tokyo = correspondent Yoon Seol-young [email protected]
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