By The Japanese have agreed to a request from North Korea through South Korea to return a stone monument taken from Korea in 1905.
South Korea has asked Japan to give back a stone monument taken from the Korean Peninsula a century ago, an official said Wednesday.
Seoul delivered its official request to Tokyo on Tuesday following high-level negotiations with North Korea earlier this month, when the two sides agreed on joint efforts seeking the statue’s return, among other reconciliation projects, said Ko Kyung-bin, a senior official at the South’s Unification Ministry.
The 2-meter- (6.5-foot- ) high stone monument was built in 1707 in what is now North Korea’s northeastern Kilju county to commemorate a Korean victory in a battle against Japan.
This reminds me of the time I went to the National Museum in Tokyo and the museum had artifacts from Korea that were designated as “gifts” from the Korean kingdom but I looked at the date of the Korean “gifts” and they were from 1592-1598 time period which so happened to be the same time line as the Hideoyoshi invasion of the peninsula where many artistic works were plundered from Korea.
It makes me wonder if this statue is also designated as another such Korean “gift”?
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
3:32 am on January 7th, 2007 1
Since we're in the spirit of Indian-giving, here's a gift I think we should take back: http://www.rotten.com/library/history/espionage/u…
3:37 am on January 7th, 2007 2
The Korea is a race of curse.
They've been living in their imagination.
Hope the guys to take care of communication with them.
9:18 am on January 7th, 2007 3
The monument was taken by Japan Imperial Army a century ago. It has been kept in the Yasukuni-Shrine. These two sentences are true.
However, the shirine kept saying that they would return the monument to the correct owner as soon as possible. So far, it was very hard to judge which Korean countries is the correct owner since the monument was taken from the North, but Japan have a relationship with the South only. If Japan decided to return it to either of Korean country, the other would have certainly blamed Japan, since they had been hating each other for decades.
Well, now the South started to ask (not has asked) to Japan to return the monument. Afterwards, they refused to receive it for some reasons which we do not understand. So the monument is still in the shirine.
Next? Koreans will blame Japan saying "Japan agreed to return once, but changed their mind…." or something like this.