아베 정부의 ‘위안부’문제 인식과 한일관계의 딜레마

Abstract

Although the Abe administration tried to draw over the Park Geun-hye administration of ROK and reached an agreement with a certain concession, it did not solve the problem at all. Instead, it made the problem more complicated and ultimately failed to achieve its intended purpose. Since the Abe administration will not easily change the attitude of the “comfort women” issue, the President Moon is not easy to change the position of this issue, so the “comfort women” problem is difficult to be effectively resolved, and the Peace comfort woman statues continue to be increased in ROK. The issue of “comfort women” is not only a problem between Japan and ROK, but also an important historical issue in which China, DPRK, Philippines and other Asian countries that had suffered Japanese aggression and colonial rules have reconciled with Japan. The reconciliation of these historical issues cannot be solved by relying solely on the agreement between the governments, but by real reconciliation between the people. Since been in Japan's Prime Minister power, Shinzo Abe had been refusing to assume the legal responsibility for the ‘comfort women’(sex slaves) issue. On the one hand, he tried to deny the historical facts, on the other hand, took the South Korea's recognition with Japan's attitude on the issue as the prerequisite of relations improvement. Unfortunately, In this context of the new South Korean government advocated the issue should be renegotiated, the Japanese government had only achieved a ‘major but false diplomatic victory’ as the issue without ultimate resolution. Beyond all doubt, the relations between South Korea and Japan may once again fall into the historical predicament. As far as we can determine, the ‘comfort women’ issue would also act as a "time bomb" of impeding the reconciliation of Japan and South Korea for a long time.