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First step towards what?
North Korea
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HISTORY STORIES
The Brutal History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’
Lee Ok-seon was running an errand for her parents when it happened: a group of uniformed men burst out of a car, attacked her and dragged her into the vehicle. As they drove away, she had no idea that she would never see her parents again.
She was 14 years old.
That fateful afternoon, Lee’s life in Busan, a town in what is now South Korea, ended for good. The teenager was taken to a so-called “comfort station”—a brothel that serviced Japanese soldiers—in Japanese-occupied China. There, she became one of the tens of thousands of “comfort women” subjected to forced prostitution by the imperial Japanese army between 1932 and 1945.
It’s been nearly a century since the first women were forced into sexual slavery for imperial Japan, but the details of their servitude remains painful and politically divisive in Japan and the countries it once occupied. Records of the women’s subjugation is scant; there are very few survivors and an estimated 90 percent of “comfort women” did not survive the war.
Though military brothels existed in the Japanese military since 1932, they expanded widely after one of the most infamous incidents in imperial Japan’s attempt to take over the Republic of China and a broad swath of Asia: the Rape of Nanking. On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops began a six-week-long massacre that essentially destroyed the Chinese city of Nanking. Along the way, Japanese troops raped between 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women.
entire article:
https://www.history.com/news/comfort-women-japan-military-brothels-korea
Hüsker Dü
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Ah yes
Ah yes, whataboutism going back decades to make excuses for a brutal dictator. You certainly are a fine Trump lackey . . . he's up in you so far he's coming out of your mouth.
First step away from nuclear war...
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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the meeting was “creating a new history”.
“The United States and North Korea have been in a state of antagonism for more than half a century,” Wang said. “Today, that the two countries’ highest leaders can sit together and have equal talks, has important and positive meaning, and is creating a new history.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he approved of Trump’s meeting with Kim, Interfax reported.
“The mere fact of the meeting between the leaders of the United States and North Korea is positive,” he said.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed hope that the unprecedented summit will lead to a successful resolution of the North Korean nuclear and missile issues.
“North Korea has rich [natural] resources and a diligent workforce. It will have a bright future if it treads the right path,” Abe said.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he “could hardly sleep” in anticipation of the meeting and expressed hope for “complete denuclearisation and peace”.
“All the attention of our people is on Singapore,” he told cabinet ministers. “I too, could hardly sleep last night.”
But the EU praised the summit as a “crucial and necessary step”, saying it indicated “complete denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula could be achieved.
“This summit was a crucial and necessary step to build upon the positive developments achieved in inter-Korean relations and on the peninsula so far,” the EU’s diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement.
entire article:
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-...ry-asia-reacts-landmark-us-north-korea-summit
Seems like everyone agrees that nothing of substance came out of the meeting.
First step away from nuclear war...
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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the meeting was “creating a new history”.
“The United States and North Korea have been in a state of antagonism for more than half a century,” Wang said. “Today, that the two countries’ highest leaders can sit together and have equal talks, has important and positive meaning, and is creating a new history.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he approved of Trump’s meeting with Kim, Interfax reported.
“The mere fact of the meeting between the leaders of the United States and North Korea is positive,” he said.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed hope that the unprecedented summit will lead to a successful resolution of the North Korean nuclear and missile issues.
“North Korea has rich [natural] resources and a diligent workforce. It will have a bright future if it treads the right path,” Abe said.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he “could hardly sleep” in anticipation of the meeting and expressed hope for “complete denuclearisation and peace”.
“All the attention of our people is on Singapore,” he told cabinet ministers. “I too, could hardly sleep last night.”
But the EU praised the summit as a “crucial and necessary step”, saying it indicated “complete denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula could be achieved.
“This summit was a crucial and necessary step to build upon the positive developments achieved in inter-Korean relations and on the peninsula so far,” the EU’s diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement.
entire article:
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-...ry-asia-reacts-landmark-us-north-korea-summit
Sheriff Joe
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Yes, everyone that doesn't matter.
Hüsker Dü
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If Kim beat Trump in an arm wrestling match, Trump and his apologist would deem it a victory. It's love, pure unadulterated love. They long for a daddy figure and authoritarian type leaders turn them on, it's sickening.
Or - the modern diplomacy version - issue an official statement that says nothing at all.
Sheriff Joe
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Where was the outrage when Obama made the deal with the murderers that run Iran and Cuba?
Dick.
Sheriff Joe
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haters gonna hate
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Obama warned Trump on North Korea. But Trump’s ‘fire and ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-warned-trump-on...
In their first and only meeting, President Obama explicitly warned Donald Trump days after the election about the urgency of North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. A few weeks later, it was clear that Obama had made an impression: Trump raised the matter out of the blue in a telephone conversation ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-warned-trump-on...
In their first and only meeting, President Obama explicitly warned Donald Trump days after the election about the urgency of North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. A few weeks later, it was clear that Obama had made an impression: Trump raised the matter out of the blue in a telephone conversation ...
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Obama: North Korea’s isolation ‘makes them less subject ...
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/03/25/obama-north-koreas...
Mar 25, 2018 · Former President Barack Obama has warned that North Korea is a “real threat” and its isolation from other countries makes it less susceptible to negotiations over its nuclear weapons. “North Korea is an example of a country that is so far out of the international norms and so disconnected with
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/03/25/obama-north-koreas...
Mar 25, 2018 · Former President Barack Obama has warned that North Korea is a “real threat” and its isolation from other countries makes it less susceptible to negotiations over its nuclear weapons. “North Korea is an example of a country that is so far out of the international norms and so disconnected with
Sheriff Joe
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While Obama does this,
Trump does this,
Trump does this,
You are the gullible fool that is putting your blind faith in the con man high flying carnival barker Donald Trump. The murderous piss ant Kim just greatly elevated North Korea's status and had to give up nothing. All Kim had to do was show up so Trumpy could pretend to be a real president while having no knowledge of what he is even doing there. The White House spent way more time on the optics of this event then having any substantial take away. It was a publicity stunt. Trump is alienating our western allies while trying to suck up to murderous dictators like Kim and Putin. This isn't partisan its all right there in front of everyone to see. Trump is fucking clueless.
Haters gunna hate.
Id be interested to hear 4nos take.
And Lion Eyes is one of the smarter nutters here.
No hate just presenting the facts of the matter. 4nos take will have is much substance as whatever Kim and Trumpy just signed - nothing. Could Trumpy at least had stacked up a bunch of stacks of empty paper like he did at one of his other publicity stunts.
From my vantage point, above the seething haters, this was a historic, albeit mostly symbolic first step toward opening up Noko.