| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/10/21, 5:45 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The World War II era dispute is still sharply relevant today, driving a wedge between Washington's two biggest allies in Asia. Young Koreans protest outside the Japanese
embassy weekly.
Seoul, South Korea
Kim Bok-dong and Kihl Wan-ok, two wizened octogenarian women, do not look as if they could pose much of a threat to US grand strategy in the Pacific. Nor do they intend to do so.
But as President Obama tries to put his “pivot to Asia” into effect, making the region key to his foreign policy by directing more military forces and diplomatic efforts there, he has hit a snag: the leaders of Washington’s two biggest allies in Asia, the nations that should be the twin pillars of Mr. Obama’s policy – Japan and South Korea – are barely talking to one another.
And in large part that is because of a few dozen old Korean ladies like Ms. Kim and Ms. Kihl.
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Kim Bok-dong (l.) and Kihl Wan-ok at a demonstration outside the Japanese
embassy of Seoul demanding an apology for the treatment of 'comfort
women.' Peter Ford/The Christian Science Monitor
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