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i melissa chant, thanks for joining us. south korea plans to help victims of forced labor during japan's occupation of the country from 1910 to the end of world war 2. by paying them with a pool of money from both south korean and japanese corporations. sol has also announced it will stop a complaint it had previously filed against japan at the world trade organization. there are reasons why the 2 countries are trying to build better relations, which we will go into in a moment. but critics say it's coming at a cost down, playing the trauma japan inflicted. here's the story of one elderly korean woman recalling the hardships of those years said that all in her recent autobiography, 92 year old south korean yang. gam doug sets the record straight and describes in detail her experience as a forced laborer for japan's doomed war machine. at age 15, she was lured from japanese colonial korea to mainland japan with the promise of

opportunity her family could not afford. oh, even till the japanese principal said i could go to junior high school if i went to japan tomorrow. my father said he was lying and wouldn't allow it that i snuck away and dag once in japan, i never even sold the school dual. i was taken straight to mitsubishi industries, where i was worked nearly to death before it was. i had wanted to be a teacher, but yang worked at the mitsubishi plant in nagoya, from june 1944 to october, 1945. the paint the gamble. bell woke us at 6 a. m and we went to the camp to work. 8 or 10 hours months ago they made me paint aeroplanes. they didn't have a ladder for us. so i used wide planks, climbed up and painted left dug on the pail of paint was too heavy for me. and so to this day one shoulder still hurts and painted clinical palmer. yet we had lunch

at noon. they gave us h a bowl of rice. but after 5 bytes it was gone, and then we had to go back to work. i was always hungry, it appeared in yemen. several of her school friends died in japan. yang still recalls the harsh smell of the factory and sleepless nights. i don't like tempting go up, but sometimes we couldn't sleep because of the bombing of the tower. while we had to spend all night in the air raid shelter. and even when we came out and we could still hear the sounds of bombs over and over, thinking down there in the morning, if we had to go back to work, the problem from linda that was forced labor survivor, young jim duck. testimonies like hers have garnered great public sympathy in south korea. present young, secured approval ratings have been low and this moved to patch things up with japan may, may, can even less popular, but he believes it's necessary. it's a move that looks to the future while trying to put the past behind. oh,

there's hardly any one left who remembers 1st hand japan's brutal rule of the korean peninsula. in the early 19 hundreds bit, some victims and their families say they're still waiting for compensation and an apology under a new plan from so victims of forced labor during japan's occupation will be compensated through a foundation that's funded by south korean companies. instead of direct payments from the japanese firms that profited some victims as well as opposition, groups have condemned the proposal. no. using newton wall jar, you know the, you suck your government is pushing ahead with the fro, japanese trade negotiations. will you do that tramp along the established legal rights of its citizens? still,

an exempt japanese war. criminal enterprises grew from legal responsibility till they were full congo wasn't. the new plan replaces a ruling from south korea's supreme court in 2018 that ordered the japanese companies to pay. tokyo has maintained that the issue of compensation was resolved through 1965 treaties that laid out post world war 2 diplomatic ties. but it's remained one of the longest running rouse between the 2 nations and is contributed to trade disputes. south korea's conservative president unit, so y'all has made strengthening ties with japan, a top priority since he took power in may. 2022. and tokyo has welcomed the move in japan and south korea are important neighbors to each other. you must cooperate in dealing with various challenges in the international community. the 2 countries

and their leaders have communicated closely since the launch of the huge suck yo lead, ministration from this amended the same pressure to end the dispute from afar to me as major allies to the united states. washington has been pushing for a resolution with looming regional challenges like north korea and china's growing power. goodwill between tokyo and sole is seen as crucial for a united front way. at ward senior fellow at the international institute for strategic studies. thanks for joining us. robert. as the report mentioned, south korea president human, secure is conservative, which tends to mean someone who is pretty nationalistic, and yet he's, it looks like he's trying to set this war time grievance aside. what's driving that? well, i think it's important to remember, this is one of the most true japan governments in korea for many,

many years. i'd argue that absence can they do was present in 2003. so this is the initiative by, by president you, he's aware that he's limited shell like soft grid. presidents can only be long term. they've got, he's got government, that's the letters that elections next year. 2020 goal. so he's window goal changing vendors regard. gotten the relationship is pretty small. i think he's trying to make use of the time that he has to pursue the relationship forward. i want to play comments from bell, south korean president, you and secure and japanese prime minister from your kinda have a listen. new gonna mediately that future orientated cooperation between south korea and japan will preserve freedom, peace, and prosperity. not only for the 2 countries, but also for the entire world will say,

considering the current international situation as their strategic environment. oak, i recognize the importance of cooperation between japan, wooden and south korea, article excuse and between japan is in the united states. scott, i here and south korea, the integrated angels. are you coaster robert? how valid are japan's and south korea's concerns about china? well, trying or is it all this is making in every fear from the economy to security issues. ab 60 down in the trying to see a little china saying, so everybody about korea, what china is doing is, is worrying obviously the japan. they are doing lots of reforms in terms of being kind of spending in you and you mentioned kids and so on. south career is

just come out with a specific strategy which is, which is welcome development for the more more broadly. so i think one of the interesting things is that, how, what is going on in ukraine's the rushes invasion ukraine have? i think japan about korea, in addition to the issues with china or see their religion as well to, to try to push the improvement in the relations and foster exhilarates improvements . both sides are worried about taiwan. both sides worried about chinese coaching more broadly in the region. and of course, the regional stability, the cooperation between japan and south korea is absolutely essential. both are allies of the us. but this sort of triangular corporation is absolutely critical for, for the ability of the us and the like minded space or region. what do you expect will be potential avenues of cooperation as you say, between the 2,

over the next few years. well, clearly big area corporation is security issues the to japan about career before relations job a couple of years ago. there was some corporation, it would be good, very welcome. i think from the point of view, if that corporations deeper and the, the try and your relationship is based on a more stable coaching. they're good sign in the japanese by that this is what they want in the december 22 new national security strategy. very importantly, japan referred to the south career as a, as an important the gorgeous and important not only geographically, but also to job security. so i think there is some, some sort of optimism within government that this, this relationship can be i think from japan point of view as well. they would welcome more creat involvement in the end of japan screen next to the concepts.

very important in terms of sort of framing policy towards the region that had been sort of south korea shaped hole in the, in the pacific. net present use to fill that out. be interesting to see how much cooperation there is within the, in the pacific. afraid work as well. encouraging, for example, that south korea also as joining the talks the in the pacific economic framework, the u. s. lawrence last year as well. so it's all pointing in the right direction. but as ever, with this point after relationship relations are strained in other areas, so they won't get into or see how, how sustainable is improvement is now china? well, like any of this, i wonder if any of aging concerns are valid. well, if you're sitting in sophia,

you're looking at what john is doing around for long the looking at the the cost of intrusion in and around the bank. i live in china cool design island. there's a lot of little sustained concern in tokyo about what time you're sitting in solar course. you're looking north with joy yang and you're saying that dreary accelerating. it's a w n d program. constantly testing massage oils and the lights in the course of time to japan. to japan and korea, we're frame this as a, an increase in the deterrents capability and the credibility of the tenants capability. just to ensure that the cap that they can influence the calculations of katherine's and a towards them in, in pyongyang, and raging critical going, raging will playing about this. and obviously as, as we saw recently complained about the past,

the way michigan robert ward. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. that's it for today. there's more on our website, d, w dot com, forward slash asia. my name is melissa chan in berlin. thanks for watching and see you tomorrow. with in many countries, education is still a privilege. hummadi is one of the main causes some young children work in mind, troughs instead of going to class others can attend classes only after they finish working with millions of children over the world can't go to school with. we ask why. and because education makes the world more,

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the band would include components already in use and require operators to dismantle and replace them. that's according to a german newspaper, citing government sources that says fears grow that chinese telecom suppliers. like while way and the t e could present espionage and cyber security risks if involved in the build up of critical infrastructure. john strand from strand consulting, a joins us now. he's the author of much circulated report highlighting germany's dependents on chinese suppliers for it's 5 g infrastructure. john, it's good to see you again. now you've said nearly 60 percent of germany's 5 g networks relies on chinese part. now how easy is it to slip to simply switch out those parts? can that genie be put back in the bottle.