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ah, i melissa chan, 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. her dad all in her recent autobiography, 92 year old, so the korean yang. gam doug sets the record straight and describes in detail her experience as a force 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 or 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, but i snuck away and day. 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 i had wanted to be a teacher. but yang worked at the mitsubishi plant in nagoya, from june 1944 to october, 1945 low painted umbrella. bell woke us at 6 a. m. and we went to the camp to work 8 or 10 hours, but they made me paint aeroplanes. they didn't have a ladder for us, so i used wide planks climbed up and painted left dozen 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, but they gave us each 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 horse smell of the factory and sleepless nights. i didn't like captain go out, but sometimes we couldn't sleep because of the bombing of the tower. why 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 up there in the morning. 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. president young secures 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. ah, there is hardly any one left who remembers 1st hand japan's brutal rule of the korean peninsula in the early 19 hundreds bet 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 is 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, never use them. newton guar i, you know, the, you suck your government is pushing ahead with the pro japanese trade negotiations . will you do that tramp along the established legal rights of its citizens,

secure way, an exempt japanese war, criminal enterprises going from legal responsibility to they will give her congo wasn't the new plan replaces a ruling from south korea's supreme court in 2018 that ordered the japanese companies to pe 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 has contributed to trade disputes. south korea's conservative president unit, so y'all has made strengthening ties with japan, a top priority since he and he's gonna, japan and south korea are important neighbors to each other. you must corporate in dealing with various challenges in the international community. the 2 countries on

their leaders have communicated closely since the launch of the unit suck yo led ministration. this amended, there's been pressure to end the dispute from afar, too. 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 soul is seen as crucial for a united front. we at ward senior fellow at the international institute for strategic studies. thanks for joining us. i'm robert. as the report mentioned at south korea as president you and 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, he's important to remember, this is one of the most to japan governments in korea for many,

many years. i know you since it's getting the job was president in 99 to 2003. so this is a administered by my president. you know, he's aware that he was a limited joke like south great residence can only be in august 1. so there's going to go government left the letters, the elections of next year, 2020 or so he's window or changing regards. the japanese relationship is pretty small. so i think he's trying to make use of the time that he has to pursue relationship forward. i want to play comments from both south korean president, you and secure, and japanese prime minister whom you kinda have a listen. you're going to leave 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. say,

considering this current national situation and teach can environment or recognize the import enough of cooperation between japan and south korea. east between japan, new united states and south korea. they hit the coast robert, how valid our japans and south korea concerns about china? well, china, or is it all this is making it well in every sphere, from the economy to security issues. absolutely down in the middle, china. so everybody about korea, china is doing is, is worrying, obviously, the japan, they are doing lots of reforms in terms of being depressed, spending the new new military kids and so on, south career, it does come out with

a specific strategy which is, which is welcome development for more, more broadly. so i think one of the interesting things is how, what is going on in ukraine's the russians invade invasion ukraine. and i think japan and south korea in addition to the issues with china, with their religion as well to, to try to push the improvement in the relations and trucks are exhilarating improvements. both sides are worried about taiwan. both sides worried about chinese coercion move more broadly in the region. and of course, the regional stability, the corporation between japan and south korea is absolutely essential. both our allies of the us, the triangular corporation is absolutely critical for, for the ability of the us and the like minded to schools based on the 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 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, your relationship is more stable, pushing their good sign in the japanese either this is what they want in the december 22 new national security strategy. very important. the japan refers to the south career is 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 about creating involvement in the end of japan and index to be

contacts. very important in terms of sort of framing from policy towards the region that had been a sort of south korea shaped hole in the, in the pacific network, but present unitary time to fill that out. so be interesting to see how much corporation there is within the, in the pacific freight work as well. for example, the 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 financial relationship relations are strained in other areas. so they won't get into our 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. and we're trying to 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 very accelerating. it's a w n d program. constantly testing, massage, and the light and then of course you go to japan to japan and korea will frame this as a, an increase in the deterrent capability and the credibility of the tenants, k realty, just to ensure that the have that they can influence the calculations negative katherine's and a towards them in, in pyongyang, and raging critical going, raging will playing about this obviously as, as we saw recently complained about the way shaken.

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. everybody knows fuels made from petroleum, goes large amounts of c, o 2. are synthetic combustibles known as e fields and i know tentative with scientists are researching that production. how exactly does it work and do e fuels have a west energy balance reb next to on t w o. global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation.

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