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Seoul ready for 'diplomatic war' with Japan
(CRI)
Updated: 2005-03-24 17:08 South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun says his
country is ready for a "diplomatic war" with Japan as tensions flared between
the neighbours over a territorial row and a Japanese textbook critics say
whitewashes Japan's militarism.
Roh Moo-hyun said
in a three-page letter addressed to the South Korean public that recent
disputes can be called attempts by Tokyo to justify a past he sees as
colonialist and expansionist.[Reuters] | Roh
Moo-hyun said in a three-page letter addressed to the South Korean public that
recent disputes can be called attempts by Tokyo to justify a past he sees as
colonialist and expansionist.
He said that South Korea's determination to set Japan right "may cause
stinging diplomatic war", but pledged to press Japan to take actions he saw as
corrective and persist until Tokyo "listens and does what it rightly has to do."
The comments were the strongest ever on Japan from Roh, who until last year
vowed not to let the history get in the way of improving ties with Tokyo.
South Korea's anger was triggered when a local Japanese assembly last week
passed a symbolic measure asserting Japan's claim to desolate islands, called
Tokto in Korea and Takeshima in Japan, and claimed by both nations.
South Korea has also awaited the result of Tokyo's review of a new history
textbook, which critics say whitewashes Japanese military atrocities in Asia and
its brutal colonial rule over Korea.
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