Since 2018, no Japan-Korea summit meeting or Japan-Korea Defense Ministry meeting has been held.
Japan-South Korea relations have fallen to the ground in the last three years. The cause is the unusual anti-Japanese behavior of the Korean government and Koreans.
In particular, the following issues have had a great impact on military and diplomacy.
territorial dispute
・ The so-called Takeshima problem. The island was incorporated into Shimane Prefecture by the Japanese government in 1905. After unilaterally proclaiming the Syngman Rhee Line, South Korea was armed and occupied by a national organization in 1953, and is still under effective control by the South Korean police.
-The Japanese government has proposed to the Korean government that the problem should be resolved by the International Court of Justice, but the Korean government continues to refuse that it is a territory peculiar to South Korea.
South Korea has occupied Takeshima for more than half a century. In this respect, it is on par with the potential enemy Russia, North Korea, and China. At this point, there will be no military exercises between Japan and South Korea.
Comfort women issue
The problem that a Korean private organization has set up the so-called comfort women statues claimed by this organization in Japan and overseas and is lobbying for them.
In 2015, Japan was all in spite of the fact that the comfort women issue agreement announced by the Foreign Ministers of Japan and South Korea stated that "we will confirm that the comfort women issue between Japan and South Korea will be finally and irreversibly resolved." However, the Korean side has not fulfilled the conditions, which is a problem.
There should be no Japanese who do not know this problem. There are many historical evidences known in Japan, such as "there are no comfort women" and "they applied for recruitment rather than compulsion, and the treatment was good." And the testimonies of the self-proclaimed comfort women have changed significantly from the beginning to the present. Perhaps the result of a match between financial desires and the interests of organizations that support activists. Even if there were comfort women, I couldn't understand the motivation to be so passionate about it, even though the Japanese government had already paid a large amount of money more than 70 years ago. This is probably one of the factors that have significantly hindered diplomacy between Japan and South Korea.
Recruitment problem
Despite the fact that the 1965 Japan-Korea Claims Agreement has solved the prewar problems between the two countries.
In 2018, the Supreme Court of South Korea ordered a Japanese company to pay damages to a self-proclaimed former recruiter who claimed to have been "forcibly taken and forced to work before the war." The South Korean government insists that it "respects judicial decisions."
There are various claims about recruitment workers, but many of them are highly paid according to historical evidence. This has already been resolved between the two countries, and the Korean government should be aware of it. Only thousands to hundreds of millions of compensation. For some reason, the Korean government has left what it should pay.
GSOMIA abandonment decision
In 2018, South Korea unilaterally abolished the Japan-Korea Military Confidential Information Protection Agreement in response to the Japanese government's tightening of restrictions on the import of substances that could be diverted to nuclear weapons to South Korea.
Japan's import restrictions are none other than the evidence that South Korea is behind the scenes of North Korea's nuclear development. There is a reason for the result. And it is forbidden to return economic problems by military. This completely lost the trust of the Japanese government and the Ministry of Defense. There is no way you can save your life with an unreliable army.
Japanese flag problem
At the International Fleet Review Ceremony hosted by South Korea in November 2018, South Korea requested the Maritime Self-Defense Force to refrain from raising the flag of the Self-Defense Fleet, but the Maritime Self-Defense Force refused to do so. On the other hand, some Korean parliamentarians
"Of course, I'm amazed at the unmanned Japanese people who can't even see a little conscience."
"As a war criminal, Japan, which destroyed world peace in an instant and committed countless killings, is proud of the Rising Sun Flag, I think, is the reason why Japan has no choice but to remain a second-class nation forever."
"The whole world will be paying attention to whether it will show the bad habits of potential perpetrators who are trying to commit war crimes again."
Blame.
As a result, Japan decided not to participate in the observing ceremony.
The Japanese, especially the Maritime Self-Defense Force, are a group that values the flag. They take pride in carrying Japan by raising the flag. From an Army point of view, if the flag is taken by the enemy, it will be a felony to the extent of seppuku.
How much humiliation would it be to drop the flag and participate? At this point, it should be no exaggeration to say that the Maritime Self-Defense Force was completely turned into an enemy.
Radar irradiation problem
In December 2018, the problem that the Korean Navy destroyer "Gwanggaeto the Great" struck her P-1 patrol aircraft with a fire control radar in the Sea of Japan.
In response to the announcement by the Japanese government that "there was radar irradiation on the patrol aircraft," the South Korean government initially "not intended to track the patrol aircraft" and "the Japanese side operated the radar for the North Korean distressed ship." He said, "I misunderstood," but after that, he insisted that he did not irradiate the patrol aircraft with radar. After that, it was announced that a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force aircraft approached by low-altitude flight and made a "threatening flight". The claim changed two or three times.
Fire control radar is part of the attack. I can't complain even if the missile is shot back and sank. This case is no longer a hostile act.
Summary
I was wondering if there was room for military cooperation, but there was none. There is no relationship of trust between the Self-Defense Forces and the South Korean army. And it won't recover. South Korea has a track record of breaking international promises many times in history. The Government of Japan should not cooperate easily. It won't be a plus.
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