[Vol.467]
Comfort women agreement: a diplomatic debacle in three




T h e D e c . 2 8 , 2015 agreement about the comfort women issue by the governments of South Korea and Japan - which has led to a diplomatic catastrophe - was one of a handful of major diplomatic ventures that South Korea pursued on its own since its liberation from Japanese colonial rule occupation. The dispute between the administrations of South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over the comfort women has unfolded in three acts.

In the first act, Park refused to hold a summit with Abe, demanding that he first take a meaningful step toward resolving the comfort women issue. Abe countered by proposing a reassessment of the 1993 Kono Statement, which acknowledged the Japanese military’s involvement in the comfort women system and the compulsory nature of the comfort women’s recruitment. The victor in this initial skirmish was South Korea.

Because of the issue’s humanitarian frame - as Japan‘s abuse of women’s human rights during wartime - no one in the international community sided with Japan. In the end, Abe had to backtrack and announced in Mar. 2014 that he would uphold the Kono Statement. This led to the beginning of bureau-chief level discussions between South Korea and Japan about the comfort women issue. But the situation started to change at the start of the second act. Even after Abe announced that he would uphold the Kono Statement, Park still refused to hold a bilateral meeting with him. (…)

But in 2013, the US made the strategic decision to strengthen its alliance with Japan in order to correct the balance of power in East Asia in response to the geopolitical shift caused by the rise of China. (…) As the US moved closer to Japan, South Korea’s options rapidly narrowed. (…)

Virtually nobody predicted that the comfort women agreement would be signed so abruptly in Dec. 2015.(…)

But these predictions were proved wrong when Seoul signed an agreement containing expressions like “irreversible” that were unilaterally favorable to Japan and permitting ambiguous interpretations of the removal of the comfort women statue. (…)

The ensuing third act was a savage time in which the roles of aggressor and victim were switched. When South Korean and Japanese civic groups asked Abe to make an apology to the former comfort women and to send them a letter, he flatly and bluntly refused. The Park administration‘s approach to the comfort women issue forced the victims to beg and allowed the aggressor to refuse.
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