This mom gave birth in Japan and shared photos of some of the hospital food she ate. Then the internet went wow. https://t.co/S5KLechvht pic.twitter.com/8D4Zz9SEDw
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) October 10, 2017
Statues symbolizing comfort women are being moved from a bus to their temporary location in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Oct. 2, 2017, prior to their transportation to regional towns to signify their homecoming for the Chuseok holiday. Donga, a bus company, has been operating five buses since mid-August that carry the statues symbolizing Korean women who were sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers during World War II. The statues will be taken to different towns, including Suwon, Daejeon and Jeonju, on the occasion of World Comfort Women’s Day. (Yonhap)
Statues symbolizing comfort women are temporarily set up in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Oct. 2, 2017, prior to their transportation to regional towns to signify their homecoming for the Chuseok holiday. Donga, a bus company, has been operating five buses since mid-August that carry the statues symbolizing Korean women who were sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers during World War II. The statues will be taken to different towns, including Suwon, Daejeon and Jeonju, on the occasion of World Comfort Women’s Day. (Yonhap)
Japan just killed 177 whales in annual hunt, including 43 minke whales, ostensibly for "scientific research" https://t.co/d1VUWNlgJq pic.twitter.com/jAtAfViJYO
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) September 27, 2017
Army chiefs of South Korea, U.S. and Japan meet on the sidelines of the Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference in Seoul on Sept. 19, 2017, in this photo from the South Korean Army. Pictured are Gen. Koji Yamazaki (L), chief of the ground staff of Japan’s Self Defense Force; South Korean Army Chief of Staff Kim Yong-woo (C); and Mark Milley, U.S. Army chief of staff. (Yonhap)
Koo Hyun-chul, who, along with his father, was taken to Japan’s Hashima Island for forced labor at the age of nine in 1939, touches the model of a forced laborer statue displayed in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan on Sept. 18, 2017. At a news conference, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, one of the nation’s two largest umbrella unions, declared a plan to set up the statue in front of the Japanese mission next May Day. Tens of thousands of Koreans were forcibly taken to the island for coal mining during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea from 1910-1945. (Yonhap)
It seems to me that every dollar South Korea spends on aid to North Korea is one more dollar that the Kim regime can divert towards its missile and nuclear programs:
President Moon Jae-in suggested Friday that South Korea could go ahead with humanitarian aid to North Korea in a thinly veiled rejection of a call for caution by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Abe asked Moon to consider the timing of the proposed aid during their phone conversation, but Moon said aid is an issue that should be dealt with regardless of political situations, an official said.
Moon said monitoring is a precondition to the aid in an apparent attempt to ensure that the aid reaches its intended beneficiaries in North Korea.
South Korea is set to decide next Thursday whether to approve the aid to infants and pregnant women in North Korea. If approved, it would mark the resumption of Seoul’s aid to North Korea via U.N. organizations, last carried out in December 2015. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link.
Getting used to it? North Korean missile not in top six stories on Japan NHK 6pm news. pic.twitter.com/xERjKVZ30w
— Alastair Gale (@AlastairGale) September 15, 2017
Here is the latest threat from North Korea in response to the recent United Nations sanctions. This type bombastic threat leads me to believe they may do yet another provocation. Since they are specifically mentioning Japan in this statement could they be setting conditions for another missile firing over the country? I guess we will see:
A North Korean state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to “sink” Japan and reduce the United States to “ashes and darkness” for supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test.
The Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North’s external ties and propaganda, also called for the breakup of the Security Council, which it called “a tool of evil” made up of “money-bribed” countries that move at the order of the United States.
“The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us,” the committee said in a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency.
Juche is the North’s ruling ideology that mixes Marxism and an extreme form of go-it-alone nationalism preached by state founder Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong Un. [Reuters]
You can read more at the link.
Oops:
A Camp Hansen Marine was arrested last week after a bullet was found in his bag at Naha Airport, Japanese police said.
Cpl. Aaron Swicegood, 25, was taken into custody at a domestic terminal security checkpoint at approximately 9:20 a.m. Friday after a live pistol round was found in his rucksack, a Tamashiro police spokesman said. Swicegood was traveling to Tokyo on his way to Los Angeles. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read more at the link, but this is a good reminder to make sure to check every small pocket in your bags for contraband to avoid an incident like this.
