Koreas accuse Japan of history distortion at U.N.

[bananas]

Source: Yonhap

South and North Korea displayed rare unity on the U.N. Security Council Wednesday, as they fiercely condemned Japan for history "distortions."

The two Koreas, backed by China, said that Japan's conservative leadership is fully responsible for escalating tensions in Northeast Asia over history and territorial issues.

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His remarks reflected uproar in South Korea over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in December and his administration's decision to teach students that Dokdo, a pair of rocky outcroppings in the East Sea, is part of its territory.

With its patience wearing thin, South Korea's Park Geun-hye government has launched a more aggressive international campaign to make the case that Japan is distorting history and is the main culprit for soured ties between the neighboring nations.

Japan has a history of aggression against Korea, China and other neighboring nations, including the colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

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Read more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/yonhap-news-agency/140129/koreas-accuse-japan-history-distortion-at-un

[Overseas]

1. K&R. Glad they're standing up to Japan's conservatives' revisionist history.

[iandhr]

2. Unlike Germany Japan has never reflected on the atrocities they committed in WWII.

[Fearless]

3. That's because a large group still feel themselves the victim.

And that this would somehow alleviate them of any blame.

[davidpdx]

4. I'm glad to see both the North and South do this together

There are few things they can agree upon, but they still have a shared history. Apparently Biden had a conversation with Abe before his visit to the shrine and was trying to talk him out of doing so, but hit a brick wall. I would have paid to been a fly on the wall during that conversation.