President Moon Deciding on Whether to Visit Japan During the Olympics
It appears the Japanese government does not want to do President Moon any favors before he leaves office which will likely influence whether he visits the Olympics or not:
President Moon Jae-in has a hard decision to make on whether to visit Japan on the occasion of the Tokyo Olympics as the envisaged trip is drawing a mixed response.
Korea Times
Advocates for the President’s participation in the opening ceremony of the quadrennial sporting event, which kicks off July 23, insist that he needs to go in order to break a deadlock in strained bilateral ties, but those critical of this say he should not travel to Tokyo as Japan is taking a lukewarm attitude toward a summit and not showing much resolve in addressing various disputes between the two countries.
Moon is making a last-ditch effort to normalize Korea’s relations with Japan before his term ends in May 2022, as this could enhance trilateral cooperation with the United States. In that sense, the two neighboring countries have been in talks over Moon’s attendance at the opening ceremony, which would lead to his first summit with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and a discussion about pending bilateral issues, according to the foreign ministry here.
However, Tokyo is seemingly unwilling to commit to a meeting, repeatedly leaking information on the negotiations to the media that deprecates a possible summit. Some media reported that any talks between Moon and Suga may last only 15 minutes due to time constraints.
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Japanese rightwing government, heavily criticized for misruling their country into a possible economic collapse after the Olympics, is desperate to redirect those internal problems onto the Koreans. Even the leader of NHK, the Japanese state propaganda TV, has come out in Japanese press that the TV station was forced to tow the rightwing party line, unable to report news without government approval, and that the Japanese government forced the station to report fake news on Korea constantly. It all comes out in their Japanese language news, but they won’t report them in their English language news, to keep the image of Japan as an advanced democratic country, lol.
It’s probably about time for Korea and Japan to have a war over Dokdo.
That will help focus attention away from the fact Korea is now openly working with communists and corporations to destroy small business, impoverish the middle class… and do all this in the name of a disease that has killed fewer people than pedestrian accidents… and only from a narrow demographic of the old, sick, and obese.
And Japan could get rid of all their Fukushima water while all the attention was on the East Sea naval skirmishes.
This really is a win for everyone.
Chickendead, stop with the tinfoil BS. I can see you, still stuck in Korea, single, just you and your bar of soap, pontificating for your buddy (who lost) Trump. LOSER! Just like trump. LOL
How cute. It doesn’t recognize satire.
…and in the modern age of 2021 it still thinks masturbationists use soap.