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Karine Jean-Pierre “Americans have the right to peacefully protest. Forcibly taking over a building is not peaceful.” 11 hours ago
Janet Yellen “Treasury has consistently warned that companies will face significant consequences for providing material support for Russia's war, and the U.S. is imposing them today on almost 300 targets.” 11 hours ago
Catherine Russell “Over 200 days of war have already killed or maimed tens of thousands of children in Gaza. For hundreds of thousands of children in the border city of Rafah, there is added fear of an escalated military operation that would bring catastrophe on top of catastrophe for children. Nearly all of the some 600,000 children now crammed into Rafah are either injured, sick, malnourished, traumatised or living with disabilities.” 11 hours ago
Eric Adams “We cannot allow what should be a lawful protest to turn into a violent spectacle that saves and serves no purpose. There's no place for acts of hate in our city. I want to continue to commend the professionalism of the police department and to thank Columbia University. It was a tough decision, we understood that. But with the very clear evidence of their observation and the clear evidence from our intelligence division, that they understood it was time to move and the action had to end and we brought it to a peaceful conclusion.” 19 hours ago
Sergei Shoigu “To maintain the required pace of the offensive … it is necessary to increase the volume and quality of weapons and military equipment supplied to the troops, primarily weapons.” 20 hours ago

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Karine Jean-Pierre “Americans have the right to peacefully protest. Forcibly taking over a building is not peaceful.” 11 hours ago
Janet Yellen “Treasury has consistently warned that companies will face significant consequences for providing material support for Russia's war, and the U.S. is imposing them today on almost 300 targets.” 11 hours ago
Catherine Russell “Over 200 days of war have already killed or maimed tens of thousands of children in Gaza. For hundreds of thousands of children in the border city of Rafah, there is added fear of an escalated military operation that would bring catastrophe on top of catastrophe for children. Nearly all of the some 600,000 children now crammed into Rafah are either injured, sick, malnourished, traumatised or living with disabilities.” 11 hours ago
Eric Adams “We cannot allow what should be a lawful protest to turn into a violent spectacle that saves and serves no purpose. There's no place for acts of hate in our city. I want to continue to commend the professionalism of the police department and to thank Columbia University. It was a tough decision, we understood that. But with the very clear evidence of their observation and the clear evidence from our intelligence division, that they understood it was time to move and the action had to end and we brought it to a peaceful conclusion.” 19 hours ago
Sergei Shoigu “To maintain the required pace of the offensive … it is necessary to increase the volume and quality of weapons and military equipment supplied to the troops, primarily weapons.” 20 hours ago

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South Korea - Japan relations

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Tae-won Chey

Inserted 2 years ago

“I expect the new prime minister [Fumio Kishida] to expand bilateral cooperation for a new course of government-to-government relations. Entrepreneurs from the two countries will hopefully discuss measures to strengthen friendship and economic cooperation by freely visiting each other's country when the COVID-19 crisis is settled.”

Chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and chairman of SK Group

03 Oct 2021 2 3

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Robert Manning

Inserted 2 years ago

“Unfortunately, I think that the dangerous downward spiral in Korea-Japan relations has its own momentum. The recent decision to seize and sell Mitsubishi assets by the Moon administration [to compensate victims of forced wartime labor], for example, would have a very negative reaction in Japan regardless of who might be prime minister, as it goes against Japanese views on previous Korea-Japan agreements. I think in light of the current situation, any Korea-Japan rapprochement will be difficult and a long-term issue, though cooperation in the face of mutual threats from North Korea should continue.”

Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council

30 Sep 2021 5 3

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Terence Roehrig

Terence Roehrig

Inserted 2 years ago

“While a new leadership is always an opportunity for change, I think that Kishida's [Fumio Kishida] victory to lead the LDP [Liberal Democratic Party] will not have much impact on Korea-Japan relations in the near term. Kishida will assess the new Korean administration's position on improving ties. There may be an opportunity for progress then, but the obstacles remain huge.”

U.S. Naval War College professor

30 Sep 2021 6 4

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Park Cheol-hee

Inserted 2 years ago

“However, if a new prime minister of Japan is elected, there will be some hope for a normalization of Korea-Japan relations as well as a renewed diplomatic atmosphere. But at the same time, we should not expect major changes to automatically happen. What we can expect is that the current Korea-Japan relations are not likely to further worsen after the leadership change.”

Japanese politics professor at Seoul National University's Graduate School of International Studies

17 Sep 2021 1 3

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Yoo Seong-min

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Dokdo issue has not been resolved yet, so why is the President going to Japan? Despite our goodwill (at PyeongChang) and calls for a revision to the map, Japan has still described Dokdo as its territory, a sign of its territorial greed. I hope that Moon will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics unless the Dokdo issue is resolved.”

South Korea politician member of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP)

12 Jul 2021 4 5

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Ha Tae-keung

Inserted 2 years ago

“President Moon's [Moon Jae-in] attendance can be an opportunity to show his determination to improve Korea-Japan ties to neighboring countries as well as the Japanese people. The worst-ever relationship between Korea and Japan has continued and the problem is that has weakened the nation's overall diplomatic capabilities as well as ties between Korea and the U.S.”

South Korean politician member of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP)

12 Jul 2021 3 3

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Sung Kim

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Biden-Harris Administration is strengthening America's relationships not only with our allies, but the relationships among them. None are more important than Japan and the Republic of Korea. We will explore opportunities to expand our cooperation in new areas such as tackling COVID-19 and addressing climate change, and are working together to reinvigorate trilateral cooperation on the North Korea challenge.”

Acting assistant US secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

03 Mar 2021 6 5

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Moon Jae-in

Inserted 3 years ago

“Korea and Japan are walking together simultaneously looking at the past and the future. The Tokyo Summer Olympic Games scheduled for this year may serve as an opportunity for dialogue between Korea and Japan, South and North Korea, North Korea and Japan, and North Korea and the United States. Korea will work together with Japan for the success of the Olympics. Furthermore, I hope that both Korea and Japan will be able to revive our economies, which were hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and jointly create a new order in the post-COIVD-19 era through even more robust cooperation.”

President of South Korea

02 Mar 2021 4 3

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Lee Won-deok

Inserted 3 years ago

“In order for the ICJ [International Court of Justice] trial to take place, the two countries need to come to an agreement. But this looks less feasible at this time. The South Korean government has been focusing on improving relations with Japan and it would try to avoid creating another source of contention. Japan would also prefer not to publicize the comfort women issue on the international stage. Korea will want to stress the issue as a matter of wartime sexual violence and victims' human rights perspective, while Japan will assert the primacy of sovereign immunity and underline all wartime compensation issues were settled through the past bilateral accords.”

Expert on Japan at Seoul's Kookmin University

28 Feb 2021 4 3

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Robert Manning

Inserted 3 years ago

“The problem is that all politics are local, and both the Moon [Moon Jae-in, president of South Korea] and Suga [Yoshihide Suga, Prime Minister of Japan] administrations respond to popular sentiment. I suspect the U.S. will strongly stress the importance of focusing on the future rather than being tortured by the ghosts of history. I think the U.S. will likely try to mediate. There are some ideas of compromise floating around, and the U.S. will likely encourage a resolution that stresses the vital importance of that to both alliances.”

Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council

27 Feb 2021 5 2

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Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Inserted 3 years ago

“I think that if the U.S. presses Japan to improve its soured relations with Korea, Tokyo will have to do so. After all, Japanese foreign policy has traditionally followed the lead of the U.S. So with a Biden administration bent on mending ties with allies, Japan would have an incentive to improve relations with Korea if Washington insists, because this move would help Tokyo in its relations with the Biden administration too. I don't think that the U.S. will intervene openly to solve the historical dispute between Seoul and Tokyo.”

KF-VUB Korea chair, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

27 Feb 2021 4 5

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Lee Jae-myung

Inserted 3 years ago

“Our people have rose from the ashes whenever we experienced difficult times by turning crisis into opportunity. Our industry faced small setbacks due to Japan's export curbs in 2019, but we are again turning this crisis into an opportunity. The cluster will help local materials, parts and equipment companies in the chip industry achieve technological independence and lead the global supply chain.”

Governor of the Gyeonggi Province (South Korea)

27 Feb 2021 1 4

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Lee Yong-soo

Inserted 3 years ago

“There's not much time. I plead with the government to hold Japan accountable under international law. I hope the two countries can resolve the issue permanently in the international court and live in peace with each other.”

92-year-old survivor of Japan’s wartime atrocities

21 Feb 2021 (approx) 3 3

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Leif-Eric Easley

Leif-Eric Easley

Inserted 3 years ago

“Strategists in Seoul tend to worry that trilateral cooperation with the U.S. and Japan could provoke Pyongyang to cancel exchanges, create costly distance with China or elicit domestic political backlash. But currently there is no inter-Korean cooperation to lose, Beijing is diplomatically isolated because of human rights and the pandemic, and most South Koreans believe relations with Tokyo should be improved. The new Biden administration offers an opportunity for closer trilateral coordination that would give Seoul leverage against North Korean provocations and Chinese economic coercion, make alliance cost-sharing negotiations easier and provide political cover to smooth over historical and trade disputes with Japan.”

Professor at Ewha University in Seoul

30 Jan 2021 6 5

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Kim Jeong-gon

Inserted 3 years ago

“It was a crime against humanity that was systematically, deliberately and extensively committed by Japan in breach of international norms. Even if it was a country’s sovereign act, state immunity cannot be applied as it was committed against our citizens on the Korean peninsula, which was illegally occupied by Japan.”

South Korean judge

08 Jan 2021 3 2

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