President Yoon Seok-yeol violates the Constitution by switching to secret negotiations on Dokdo and the comfort women and nullifying the Supreme Court ruling on compensation for conscripted workers.
Regarding Japanese media reports that the issue of comfort women and Dokdo was brought up at the Korea-Japan summit on the 18th, Kim Tae-hyo, the first deputy chief of national security, said in secret negotiations, "We cannot disclose all the conversations between the leaders who came and went at the summit."
Following Deputy Minister Kim's announcement, Foreign Minister Park Jin announced on KBS 9 News in the evening that the Korea-Japan summit held on the 16th had not been discussed as an agenda, making it official as a secret negotiation. The news agency reported on the 17th that “At the Korea-Japan summit, Prime Minister Kishida requested the steady implementation of the comfort women agreement reached in 2015.” Regarding the Supreme Court that ruled, "If the right to indemnity is exercised, this is to put all the problems back to their original place." said.
On the 6th, Minister Park Jin officially announced the 'third-party reimbursement' plan as the final solution in relation to compensation for forced labor in Japan, and in response to the ruling on compensation by Japanese companies, Korean companies supported Japanese forced labor victims on behalf of Japanese war criminal companies under the Ministry of Public Administration and Security of Korea. Article 6 of the Constitution states that "Treaties concluded and promulgated under the Constitution and generally recognized international laws have the same effect as domestic laws" and Article 73 of the Constitution "The President concluded and ratified, trusted, received or dispatched diplomatic envoys, and declared and strengthened war”.
In a press announcement on the 16th, the President's Office stated, "At the Korea-Japan summit held on the 16th, neither the comfort women issue nor the Dokdo issue was discussed." In response to the question of whether Prime Minister Kishida is requesting the implementation of the comfort women agreement, he confirmed the secret negotiations, saying, "We cannot disclose all the conversations between the leaders who came and went at the summit."
Deputy Director Kim said, "It cannot be a hot issue. It is our land currently occupied by us," in response to a question about 'Dokdo-related mentions' and said, "Recently, as far as I remember, I don't remember that a Japanese official told us about this Dokdo." , “the territory of the Republic of Korea shall be the Korean Peninsula and its annexed islands” was limited to “the right of possession” and “personal memory” of the Constitution.
Deputy Director Kim continued, "One of the parties to the 2015 Korea-Japan comfort women agreement was Prime Minister Kishida, who was Foreign Minister at the time." As an administrative measure of Korea under the 'Responsibility Priority for Dissolution of Korea', the '2015 agreement is valid until now' has been made official.
In international negotiations, secret negotiations are allowed for the prior contact process according to the principle of disclosure immediately after the conclusion of the agreement. and can be nullified by judging it as a violation of the Constitution.
Since the Korea-Japan summit is an open international negotiation and prior contact applies only to summit access, secret negotiations at the summit are not internationally accepted.
Since the national interest dominated by the executive branch is an 'administrative ruling system that monopolizes future profits', Article 119 (2) of the Constitution, which prohibits the temporary executive and president's control through elections, “The state is responsible for the balanced growth and stability of the national economy and preserving the fair distribution of income, and preventing the domination of the market and the abuse of economic power”.
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