President Yoon Seok-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida jointly paid their respects at the memorial stone for Korean victims of the atomic bombing on the 21st. The heads of state of the two countries laid a wreath at the memorial and bowed their heads in silence토스카지노. At the site, 10 representatives of Korean atomic bomb victims, including Park Nam-joo, former special chairman of the Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Countermeasures Committee, attended and watched the two heads of state couple pay their respects.
President Yun and Prime Minister Kishida and his wife visited the Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Cenotaph located in Hiroshima Peace Park in Japan this morning and paid joint obeisance. It was evaluated that the two heads of state had a different meaning in that the two heads of state jointly visited the memorial stone for Korean victims. Previously, on the first day of his visit to Hiroshima, Japan, where the G7 summit was being held , President Yoon met and comforted Korean atomic bomb victims living in Japan. After the visit, the heads of state of the two countries will immediately move to their seats to continue the Korea-Japan summit.
This joint visit came to fruition when Prime Minister Kishida, who visited Korea on the 7th to complete shuttle diplomacy, first suggested it. This is the first time both leaders of the two countries paid their respects at the memorial stone, and it is also the first time that a Korean president visited a memorial stone for Korean victims in Hiroshima. It is the first time in 24 years since former Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi in 1999 that a Japanese prime minister paid his respects at a memorial stone for Korean victims.
It is known that at the time of the atomic bombing, there were tens of thousands of Koreans living in Hiroshima who had emigrated for reasons such as forced labor. Many of them were sacrificed or exposed to atomic bombs. The issue of Korean victims was forgotten in Japanese society, but in 1970, a memorial to Korean victims of the atomic bomb was prepared under the leadership of Mindan’s Hiroshima headquarters. At the time of construction, it was installed outside the Peace Park, but it was moved to the Hiroshima Peace Park in 1999 thanks to the steady efforts of Korean residents in Japan and Japanese civic groups. The memorial stone is a Korean-style monument with a height of 5 meters and a weight of 10 tons. All of them were made in Korea and moved to Hiroshima.