President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. [연합뉴스]
– As Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has not even interviewed with South Korean Ambassador to Japan Nam Kwan-pyo, who is leaving for Korea, it is pointed out that it is a rudeness in diplomacy.
On the 17th, Japanese private broadcaster TBS reported that “Suga did not end up with an interview that was in the middle of coordinating ahead of the resignation of Ambassador Nam Kwan-pyo. Ambassador Nam left Japan the afternoon of the previous day without meeting with Prime Minister Suga. Considering the fact that it was customary to meet with the Japanese Prime Minister when the Korean ambassador resigned, this is extremely unusual.
Japanese government officials reported that Prime Minister Suga withheld the meeting with Ambassador Nam, taking into account the recent ruling of a Korean court that the Japanese government should compensate the Japanese military’comfort women’ victims. On the 8th, the Japanese Foreign Ministry called the Ambassador Nam to protest in the first trial of a lawsuit filed against the Japanese government by the victims of’comfort women’ against the Japanese government.
The new ambassador to Japan Kang Chang-il, who is about to leave Japan on the 22nd, said, “I think it is rudeness. I don’t know why I couldn’t say hello or not.”
This contrasts with President Moon Jae-in’s interview with Japanese Ambassador to Korea, Goji Tomita, who took over on the 14th at the Blue House. President Moon said, “The two countries need to restore constructive and forward-looking relations early.”
On this day, Ambassador Kang said at a video conference with reporters, “There was a request from President Moon to work hard to normalize relations between Korea and Japan and strengthen the bilateral cooperation system.” Said.
Reporter Lee Ga-young [email protected]
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