On the 19th, presidential office spokesman Lee Do-woon commented on the success of the president's visit to Japan, saying, "I think we have succeeded to some extent in opening the Japanese mind." The Supreme Court seems to have inflicted on Japan.
At a press conference at the summit, President Yoon said, “The Korean government handled the issue of compensation for victims in relation to the 1965 agreement with government finances, but in 2018, a judgment was pronounced that was different from the government’s position and interpretation of the 1965 agreement. He said, “With the idea that Korea-Japan relations should be normalized and developed by harmonizing the consistent attitude and judgment that the Korean government has interpreted on this agreement, I announced it as a solution to the three-party reimbursement proposal by the fund. If the right to indemnity is exercised, it will be returned to its original position (omitted), so the Korean government does not assume that the right to indemnity is exercised in relation to the purpose of announcing the ruling solution,” he said on the 16th about the relationship between’correction of the judgment’ and’normalization’.
In a radio interview on the 20th, Rep. Jin-seok Jeong (former head of the Emergency Response Committee) said in a radio interview that the Korea-Japan summit was “the first step in trying to normalize Korea-Japan relations, which had deviated from the orbit, and normalize the abnormality.” was identified as 'departure from orbit abnormal'.
Attorney Shinpyeong told KBS on the 10th, “In 2012, Supreme Court Justice Kim Neung-hwan said that he made such a ruling with the feeling of establishing a second country. (Omitted) I believe that Supreme Court Justice Kim Neung-hwan made such a ruling in the spirit of the second founding of the country.
Attorney Shin, who served as the chairman of the sponsorship meeting in the election of Kim Ki-hyun, the power of the people with 40 years of friendship with President Yoon Seok-yeol, said, “If you look at the history of the issue of compensation for forced labor, the view that the right to claim compensation is included in it by the Korea-Japan Claims Agreement in 1965. has hardened in both Korea and Japan,” he said in response to the 2018 Supreme Court ruling on compensation for the right to conscription, saying, “It is not right in the light of global standards.
Regarding President Yoon’s March 1 commemorative speech on the 2nd, Attorney Shin said, “Regardless of us, Japan’s imperial militarism claims that it swallowed our Korean peninsula. . Among the pro-Japanese arguments, the main justification for their actions was that the Japanese royal family, which inherited the royal family of Goguryeo and Baekje, had the legitimacy of ruling the Korean Peninsula,” he said. I think it would be reasonable and objective to look at "the outsider and the insider" together," he said through MBC.
Spokesman Lee Do-woon of the President's Office suggested the active farewell of the Tokyo city hotel where President Yoon stayed and the Haneda Airport staff as a 'proof of the open mind of the Japanese people'. So they continued to clap until after the president and his party had left. Airport staff were also applauding,” he said.
Spokesman Lee continued, "If diplomacy is about opening the other person's heart and changing the game in bilateral or multilateral relations, President Yoon Seok-yeol's visit to Japan is a great success." It was a general assessment that it was open,” he said.
On the 17th, President Yoon gave a lecture on “Prosperous Development of Korea and Japan Based on Freedom” at Keio University in “Prohibition of Alienation,” and spoke of “free solidarity” at a business group and announced the restoration of the Cold War system security umbrella economy.
In a lecture at Keio University, President Yoon said, “After World War II, Japan would have achieved economic prosperity based on a firm belief in liberal democracy and a market economy system.” Development is a very important thing,” so he gave a lecture on the 'cold war economic system of the U.S. security umbrella through defeat' to future generations.
<Seok-Yeol Yoon, ‘No Alienation’, Keio University, ‘Freedom’, Cold War System, ‘Restoration of the Security Umbrella Economy’, March 18, 2023>