On the 27th, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the contents of a telephone conference between US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu, omitting the “importance of trilateral cooperation between Korea, the United States and Japan”.
In the unannounced, the Japanese Foreign Ministry data line is missing.
Degree of intentional reduction due to antipathy against Korea
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Japan’s NHK broadcast on the 27th, reporting the news of the first telephone conference between Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln. [연합뉴스]
– The two ministers ended the talks for 30 minutes starting around 8 a.m. Japan time and distributed the results of the talks to their respective press releases. Among them, the information related to Korea-US-Japan cooperation contained in the data released by the US State Department was omitted from the data by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It can be interpreted that the Japanese government has reduced the contents of Korea in consciousness of the deteriorating relationship between Korea and Japan.
After the U.S. State Department announced in the data on the day that Minister Blincoln and Foreign Minister Motegi confirmed the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance in the currency, “Minister Blinken emphasized the importance of continued U.S.-Japan-Korea cooperation (Secretary Blinken). highlighted the importance of continued US-Japan-Republic of Korea cooperation)”.
However, the data released by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not contain this content. “The two ministers exchanged opinions on the regional situation in China, North Korea, and South Korea and the importance of’free and open Indo-Pacific’,” he said, and then “working on the challenges faced by the local and international community. ·The US (US and Japan), Japan, the United States, Australia, India, and other comrades (countries with the same will) gathered opinions to cooperate closely.
South Korea was mentioned as the’regional situation’ that the US and Japan should discuss with China and North Korea, and it was omitted from the cooperation partners that share the will with the US and Japan.
While Japan’s Foreign Ministry did not disclose Blincoln’s remarks on’Korea-US-Japan cooperation’, Japanese media such as Kyodo News quoted the announcement from the US State Department and delivered the content.
Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains that the two countries consider this to be important according to their respective viewpoints, but are not intentional omissions.
However, Japan’s omission of the matter emphasized in the short announcement by the United States could be interpreted as expressing dissatisfaction accumulated in Korea due to the judgment of compensation for victims of forced conscription by the Korean court and judgment of comfort women in the Japanese military.
Japanese officials have recently expressed their dissatisfaction with Korea directly or indirectly at an official stand. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga also deliberately reduced the importance of South Korea by referring to South Korea last, following North Korea, China, Russia, and ASEAN, while explaining diplomatic tasks of neighboring countries in a speech on the National Assembly’s corrective policy on the 18th. Made an impression.
Tokyo = Correspondent Lee Young-hee [email protected]
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