When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.
North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.
South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.
Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U. N. report.
Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U. S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.
U. S. has certainly been wanting this to happen since both Japan and Korea are longtime allies of the U. S. and this estranged relationship has prevented better cooperation.
Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn't included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about.
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
I was always insecure about the way I looked.
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.