South Korean President Balks Regarding Food and Fuel Exchange with Japan’s Self-Defense Forces- “We have a history of being beaten (by Japan), and although we are on good terms now because it is necessary, there is a feeling among the people that we cannot truly cooperate completely.”

Aand here’s the step back again. Where are the people who have these feelings?

Afaik most young people don’t give a fuck unless old and evil politicians put the fear of the foreign in their heads.

This from a government with two presidents guilty of violent suppression of democratic protests, two more convicted for treason, another two convicted and imprisoned for bribery and corruption (and a third who committed suicide before the same could happen to him), and another who just recently got sentenced to life imprisonment for insurrection (altogether they account for about 53 years of Korean rule, about two thirds). There is an argument that Korean people, with good reason, trust their own leaders less than they do Japan but if the two countries began to cooperate too much those leaders would lose a common tool they have for switching public anger and frustration from domestic to foreign targets.

Has Japan apologies for the atrocities they commited against eastern Asia?

Europe trusted Russia again and here we are.